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Reflecting on Heuristics

Steve Shu Consulting

What type of risk analysis have you done? For example, people often talk about a 4% drawdown rule/heuristic for using your wealth at retirement (e.g., use up 4% of your wealth each year). But one has to remember that using up your wealth is essentially an irreversible process. What happens if you live 40 more years?

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What You Need to Learn from DiGiorno Pizza’s Foolish Twitter Gaffe

Melissa Agnes

Had they taken the 10 seconds to do a risk analysis (or simply understand the use of the hashtag), “a million apologies” wouldn’t have been necessary. Only problem was, they didn’t take that quick 10 seconds to understand the meaning behind the hashtag before posting. A million apologies.

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Managing Risks and Controlling Projects: How Data-Driven Project Management Come in Useful for Multi-Project Environments

Epicflow

Risk Analysis: Essential Components A risk is an event or circumstance with either a positive or negative effect on a project. Risk Analysis: Essential Components A risk is an event or circumstance with either a positive or negative effect on a project. So, what do you need for an efficient risk analysis?

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#CrisisRoundup of Awesome Links: Week of September 8, 2014

Melissa Agnes

Help Prevent A Crisis With A Social Media Risk Analysis. Risk analyses are so important. Other articles worthy of your attention. 3 Important Takeaways from Emory University Hospital’s Ebola Controversy. Written by yours truly , this article discusses exactly what the title promises! I can’t stress that enough!

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Main Risks of Aerospace Engineering Projects: How to Implement Wise Risk Management into Your Organization

Epicflow

To identify possible project risks, it’s reasonable to analyze historical data, consult stakeholders and the project team as well as perform simulations. The classifications of risks mentioned in the previous section will also be useful to determine possible threats. . Step 3: Analyzing risks. Risk Management in Engineering. .

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TCIP #016 – Malaysia Airlines Crisis Management with Jonathan Hemus

Melissa Agnes

If you’re a regular reader/listener of mine, I don’t have to tell you what I think of this and the lack of risk analysis (or common sense) that went into this “campaign”, but that aside, as this incident happened after this podcast was recorded, we do not discuss its foolishness in this episode.

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TCIP #059 – The Human Capital Component Of Crisis Management, With Sam Miller

Melissa Agnes

An important question that should be added to your risk analysis – every time. This episode of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast discusses: The human and emotional factors that should be incorporated into your crisis preparedness and response.