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Systemic risk assessment: a case study

Systemic risk assessment: a case study
Systemic risk assessment: a case study
Project Risk Registers have been used extensively for many years. However, they do not account for the interaction between risks. For example the occurrence of one risk exacerbating
other risks or portfolios of risks being more significant than the sum of the individual risks. This leads to the need to consider ‘risk systemicity’ as a part of risk analysis. This paper reports on a specific case for a large multi-national project based organisation, one that the authors had been
involved with in the analysis of a number of projects that had massive cost overruns. Following these analyses the organization was persuaded of the importance of risk systemicity. The organization therefore engaged the authors to develop a ‘Risk Filter’. This filter is a tool for identifying areas of risk exposure on future projects and creating a framework for their investigation. The ‘Risk Filter’ is now used on all projects since its introduction; by the end of May 2003 it had been used by 9 divisions, on over 60 major projects, and completed by 450 respondents. It is also used at several stages during the life of a project to aid in the risk assessment and management of each project and contributes to a project database.
1356-3548
CRR-07-11
University of Southampton
Ackermann, F.
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Eden, C.
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Williams, T.
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Howick, S.
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Ackermann, F.
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Eden, C.
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Williams, T.
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Howick, S.
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Ackermann, F., Eden, C., Williams, T. and Howick, S. (2007) Systemic risk assessment: a case study (University of Southampton Discussion Paper Series: Centre for Risk Research, CRR-07-11) Southampton, UK. University of Southampton 35pp.

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Abstract

Project Risk Registers have been used extensively for many years. However, they do not account for the interaction between risks. For example the occurrence of one risk exacerbating
other risks or portfolios of risks being more significant than the sum of the individual risks. This leads to the need to consider ‘risk systemicity’ as a part of risk analysis. This paper reports on a specific case for a large multi-national project based organisation, one that the authors had been
involved with in the analysis of a number of projects that had massive cost overruns. Following these analyses the organization was persuaded of the importance of risk systemicity. The organization therefore engaged the authors to develop a ‘Risk Filter’. This filter is a tool for identifying areas of risk exposure on future projects and creating a framework for their investigation. The ‘Risk Filter’ is now used on all projects since its introduction; by the end of May 2003 it had been used by 9 divisions, on over 60 major projects, and completed by 450 respondents. It is also used at several stages during the life of a project to aid in the risk assessment and management of each project and contributes to a project database.

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Published date: 2007

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Local EPrints ID: 58528
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/58528
ISSN: 1356-3548
PURE UUID: 5533a157-6891-4ccd-9c3e-184aa3024dfe

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Date deposited: 15 Aug 2008
Last modified: 09 Jan 2022 02:28

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Author: F. Ackermann
Author: C. Eden
Author: T. Williams
Author: S. Howick

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