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Mitigate the Risks linked to Employee Failure with Improved Recruitment and Selection

Mitigate the Risks linked to Employee Failure with Improved Recruitment and Selection Riskope thanks Lindsay Edwards for this contribution Many companies aroud the world consider the hazards linked to employee recruitment and retention as very significant. Here are some tips that will help you mitigate the risk linked to employee failure. Understand the need This involves optimizing job specifications and also being sure that you have a proper understanding of your business needs before you commence the recruitment process. The…

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North China early-warning system for quakes

North China early-warning system for quakes North China has seen violent seismic activity, including an 8.2-magnitude earthquake in 1976, killing more than 242,000 people in Hebei, Beijing and Tianjin. That event was one of the deadliest calamities in human history. China started to pay attention to early earthquake warnings after the 8.0-magnitude Wenchuan earthquake, which killed nearly 70,000 people. Many countries, including Japan, Mexico and Turkey are equipped with early warning systems. A real-time system can give warnings within seconds…

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Project Risk Management

Project Risk Management The best ROI from Risk Management comes if it is conceived as a continuous support of a project from cradle to grave. It does not matter if the project is an acquisition, a strategic shift the board of directors envisions, a process change or some capital expenditure for an existing operation/infrastructure. The support includes of course scheduling and budgeting risk assessment. If the support starts at pre-feasibility level, the return on investment is the highest. However, we…

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Optimum Risk Estimates, ORE and Aerospace Applications

Optimum Risk Estimates, ORE and Aerospace Applications Smaller satellites are becoming frequent in the so called era of the “nano satellites”. Canada, for example, using an Indian launcher placed simultaneously into orbit, a little more than one year ago, four satellites. Indeed, the drive to miniaturize has been a recurring theme in the space industry for size and weight translate directly into the cost of getting a satellite off the ground (setting into orbit one tonne of equipment costs approximately…

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Great Recession over? U.S. passed employment peak, but…

Great Recession over? U.S. passed employment peak The News A couple weeks ago, reportedly, the US returned to a level of employment comparable to the pre-2008 level. We see the US and other countries (including Greece) slowly emerging from the crisis, in some cases employment getting back to reasonable pre-recession percentages, but many doubts linger. In the same days we also read that “Americans think economy won’t recover until 2017” and we have read many papers on the income speciation.…

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Che commenti possono farsi dopo il Venerdì nero (13 giugno) della telefonia italiana che, secondo i giornali, ha colpito un Italiano su quattro, con un black out di varie ore?

Mi permetta di riprendere i punti salienti e pertinenti dell’intervista che ho rilasciato il 6 giugno a Torino e commentarli. Nell’intervista parlavo delle conseguenze sociali ed indirette degli scenari potenziali che devono essere studiate e valutate fino in fondo, le soluzioni sursemplificate e pressapochiste dei decenni passati non essendo più accettabili per il pubblico . Nel caso di venerdì 13/06 si parla già di “maxi risarcimenti”, class actions, interventi dell’Antitrust quindi esattamente dei fenomeni a cui alludevo. La valutazione delle conseguenze…

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Extreme Weather Is Already Draining The Biggest U.S. Companies

Extreme Weather Is Already Draining The Biggest U.S. Companies The recent Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) report shows how Pepsi, Allstate, Walmart, and dozens of other S&P 500 corporations face large financial impacts as climate change worsens. It seems that political diatribes over whether climate change is real should be over now? At Riskope we have been including climate change scenarios and their related costs for a few years in all our holistic risk assessments: from automotive producers and suppliers to…

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Franco Oboni interviewed by an Italian journalist

Franco Oboni interviewed by an Italian journalist This blog post is a summary of an interview released by Riskope’s  Franco Oboni in Italy. Q1 Could you please define risk management and explain its scope? Risk Management in Riskope’s day-to-day practice is a scientific, rational approach based on over twenty years of applied research. It allows our clients to optimize their resources, all of them, including the “hidden ones”, and finally “boldly go where – sorry for the Star-Trek hint here–…

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