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In the past few years, the explosion of the Internet has propelled instant messaging (IM) from chat room fixture to boardroom issue. The dramatic growth of consumer IM services (from AOL, MSN, Yahoo, and others) has triggered a secondary effect: IM has gone corporate.
This is at least the fourth special issue on the subject of risk management in Cutter IT Journal/American Programmer since September 1992.
- Not Just a Four-Letter Word Anymore: Project "Risk" Includes Opportunities
by David T. Hulett and David Hillson - If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It
by Ronald J. Kohl
The stock market roller coaster. Lingering visions of cultural icons collapsing in on themselves. Lines of weary travelers snaking their way toward the airline ticket counters. These images are changing the very climate for risk management. Suddenly, "risk" has a cachet it hasn't seen in years. But is "risk management" here to stay? And if so, what forms will it take?
Risk management can assist managers in meeting cost, performance, and schedule requirements on their projects, yet its effectiveness is generally diminished because of inadequate processes and implementation considerations. These include:
Imagine a clash between two worlds, one that is risk averse, traditional, and conservative and another that is risk seeking, opportunistic, and entrepreneurial.
Over the last few years, enterprise and operational risk management activities in many sectors have evolved from information gathering to a functional discipline with dedicated staff using established formal policies and both quantitative and qualitative procedures.
I come to praise RM, not to bury it.