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The Six Mistakes Executives Make in Risk Management
Ist Teil von
Harvard business review, 2009-10, Vol.87 (10), p.78
Ort / Verlag
Boston: Harvard Business Review
Erscheinungsjahr
2009
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EBSCOhost Business Source Ultimate
Beschreibungen/Notizen
We don't live in the world for which conventional risk-management textbooks prepare us. No forecasting model predicted the impact of the current economic crisis, and its consequences continue to take establishment economists and business academics by surprise. Moreover, as we all know, the crisis has been compounded by the banks' so-called risk-management models, which increased their exposure to risk instead of limiting it and rendered the global economic system more fragile than ever. Low-probability, high-impact events that are almost impossible to forecast--we call them Black Swan events--are increasingly dominating the environment. Because of the internet and globalization, the world has become a complex system, made up of a tangled web of relationships and other interdependent factors. Complexity not only increases the incidence of Black Swan events but also makes forecasting even ordinary events impossible. All we can predict is that companies that ignore Black Swan events will go under. Instead of trying to anticipate low-probability, high-impact events, we should reduce our vulnerability to them. Risk management, we believe, should be about lessening the impact of what we don't understand--not a futile attempt to develop sophisticated techniques and stories that perpetuate our illusions of being able to understand and predict the social and economic environment. To change the way we think about risk, we must avoid making six mistakes.