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Oroville Dam risks became unmanageable?

In the case of Oroville dam, the population exposed to the potential dam failure has increased significantly. Normalization of deviance increased the probability of failure. So is it possible that Oroville Dam risks became unmanageable because of that? Oroville Dam risks became unmanageable? When looking at risk mitigation the old saying is that you can either lower the probability or lower the consequences. That statement requires some explanation. Indeed what mitigation alone can do is exclusively to reduce the probability of…

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Investing-in, Lending-to or Managing a Corporation: to what extent does the point of view influence the ERM decision making process ?

In this post we will see to what extent does the point of view influence the ERM decision making process. We deploy the ORE (Optimum Risk Estimates, (C)Riskope) methodology. We want to enable the comparison of Management and Corporate decision making at ERM (Entreprise Risk Management) level. We selected ORE because common practice risk assessment techniques lack the acumen to enable the discussion to proceed. Common practice risk assessment techniques include methods such as FMECA, FMEA, Probability Impact graphs, etc. To…

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