| Opportunity Risk management will build on its current popularity to become the most important management discipline of the next 20 years. Risk Risk management will become the first management fad of the millennium -- overhyped, oversold, and overblown. | Opening Statement Defining Risk: A Debate Making It Up as We Go: The Perils of Ad Hoc Risk Management Achieving Effective Risk Management by Overcoming Some Common Pitfalls Safety, Risk, and Danger: A New Dynamic Perspective Risk Management: Here to Stay Risk Management for Software and Systems Projects: Utterly Doomed A Personal Postscript: Is There a Future for Risk Management? | |
| Next Issue The Technology Myth in KM and Business Intelligence Guest Editor: Verna Allee There has been an explosion in knowledge-focused technologies, ranging from data mining and search engines to portal technology and Web conferencing. Vendors claim "knowledge technologies" will solve most, if not all, of an organization's knowledge challenges. But will they live up to their billing, or have vendors missed the point? Can technology leverage human knowledge, or are we better off investing more in human interaction? Whether you incline to people or portals, tune in next month for another spirited debate. | ||
Risk management is a white-hot topic. It is hard to pick up a magazine or newspaper that doesn't have a story with the word "risk" spread from title to last paragraph. But as risk management becomes more popular, will it go the way of previous good ideas -- from fashion, to fad, and then trash heap? Do the debates over the definition of risk signal risk management's good health or impending demise? Tune in as we debate whether risk management is doomed or here to stay.
