Abstract
In this chapter:
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Understanding how X-Act® OBC Platform supports a decision to cure the risk caused by dynamic complexity
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Explaining disruption as a viable path for the treatment of risk
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Reviewing areas of risks that may be best solved through disruption
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Why disruption is sometimes imposed by circumstances
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
— Thomas Edison, American inventor and businessman
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Abu el Ata, N., Drucbert, A. (2017). Identifying the Cure for Dynamic Complexity: Improve, Transform or Disrupt?. In: Leading from Under the Sword of Damocles. Springer Vieweg, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-56300-7_12
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