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ORE use for Risk Informed Decision Making (RIDM)

ORE use for Risk Informed Decision Making (RIDM) explores the possible deployment of ORE within RIDM. We will teach this in Banff using well documented case histories. Here are some examples: Mining (operations and environmental rehabilitation) Transportation (RR and highways) Wharves (including multi-modal logistics) Automotive (specialty vehicles) M&A, startups ORE use for Risk Informed Decision Making (RIDM) : does it fit? We highlight below some aspects of RIDM and compare them to ORE features to show how ORE use for Risk…

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Season’s Greetings from Riskope! Voeux de Saison par Riskope! Auguri di Stagione da Riskope. Buen Fin de Año y Feliz 2015

Season’s Greetings from Riskope! Voeux de Saison par Riskope! Auguri di Stagione da Riskope. Buen Fin de Año y Feliz 2015 CLICK THE PICTURE TO VIEW THE MOVIE! This year Riskope has decided to celebrate the Year End by proposing an animated Tale of King Provvidus, Riskopius, his trustworthy advisor and ORE, his faithful method. Season’s Greetings from Riskope! Voeux de Saison par Riskope! Auguri di Stagione da Riskope. Buen Fin de Año y Feliz 2015. This communication project has taken…

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Resilience: A new buzzword? Discussing the differences between risk and resilience improvement studies.

Discussing the differences between risk and resilience improvement studies. Let’s start by asking ourselves if our book « Improving Sustainability through Reasonable Risk and Crisis Management (Oboni F., C. Oboni,, ISBN 978-0-9784462-0-8, 2007) could instead bear the title “Improving Resilience through Reasonable Risk and Crisis Management “? First of all let’s note that some authors rightly consider and explicitly state that Risk Assessment/ Risk Management are the first step towards a resilience improvement study, and remain at the heart of…

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Strategy, Leadership and Success in Personal and Organizational Development

2012 marks the 20th anniversary of Riskope’s active service in the international Risk and Crisis Management arena with Strategy, Leadership and Success in Personal and Organizational Development. Although we exist, in one form or another, since 1988, our companies drastically evolved from Engineering to Risk and Crisis Management with the acquisition of a series of very unusual jobs in the early 90s. It appears now that those jobs were the tipping point of our evolution, as summarized by the following images.…

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On time, on budget, in control, showing your leadership with sustainable capital expenditure, even during recessions and economic, financial crises.

On time, on budget, in control, showing your leadership with sustainable capital expenditure, even during recessions and economic, financial crises. This is not just a motto!  Riskope can indeed help you solve numerous issues related to that statement. For example: insurance denial situations, add value to you existing risk assessments, enhance risk registers, develop ERM in an ingenious way. We could spell out as follows a subtitle. Let us take the best advantage of what you possibly have and deliver…

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The Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol and Operation Risk Awareness and Preparedness Rating (ORAPR)

Sustainability Assessment Protocol and Operation Risk Awareness and Preparedness Rating offer the subject to an interesting discussion. One of the challenges of Risk Assessments lies in defining proper metrics for the consequences of hazards hits. When the Risk Assessment bears on a well-defined facility, the task is relatively easy. Easier than if the study bears on large and multifaceted systems exposed to risks. Among these, for example copper theft or information warfare at national scale, or, similarly, if we are…

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Riots in Europe do not Come as a Surprise to our Clients

In March 2010 we broadcasted an update of our predictions. We originally published those predictions in November 2008 bearing on the duration and depth of the crisis in the Western World. Riots in Europe do not Come as a Surprise to our Clients Riots in Europe do not Come as a Surprise to our Clients So, please go back to our post-Lehman Brothers (November 2008) communique. We evaluated a 20% chance the recession would last past Fall 2011. In addition there…

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Our clients beat the trends. We are proud to contribute to their leadership.

Our clients beat the trends. We are proud to contribute to their leadership. This blogpost discusses this issue. The trigger lied in reading a Deloitte’s report. As a matter of fact, we read with a lot of interest Deloitte’s report entitled: Tracking the trends 2011, The top 10 issues mining companies will face in the coming year. The issues We summarize below the issues highlighted in Deloitte’s report: 1 Financing 2 Volatility 3 Stakeholders engagement 4 Taxes, regulations and governments…

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