From fires to employee errors, all businesses face risks. Starting a business without risk is impossible, so to run successful businesses, small-business owners must understand and prepare for the ...

Companies that want to achieve a sustainable and profitable business need to focus on three dimensions of their operations, generally speaking. First is value protection, a foundational concern that ...

Operational risk management encompasses the identification, assessment, monitoring and mitigation of losses arising from inadequate or failed internal processes, people, systems or external events.

Pressures to decrease cost, increase reliability, and comply with local regulations conspire to make it harder than ever for IT to deliver business services efficiently. We are fast approaching the ...

Operational risk scenario analysis has existed for a long time. Why is it under more scrutiny now? Patrick Naim, Elseware: I wouldn’t describe it as scrutiny so much as more ambitious objectives for ...

As we continue to emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, the global economy is facing a new set of challenges: inflation, fragile consumer loyalty and, finally, a possible recession. In such an uncertain ...

Editor’s note: Sreekumar Somasundaram is a senior supply chain technical program manager at AWS. This article and its content was created prior to his current position with AWS. Implementing a ...

In his book "Bleeding Talent," Tim Kane argues that the U.S. military is "bleeding talent--and it's not just because of money. Talent is bleeding externally as top officers quit the ranks in ...

The No. 1 job of any CEO is to own the organization’s vision and values. This is the one job the CEO cannot delegate. Additionally, as VF’s former CEO, Rob Gregory explains, CEOs must own their ...

Becker’s asked four health system strategic leaders to pick one operational process systems must rethink in 2026. If you are a COO or strategic leader in healthcare and are interested in joining ...