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In this chapter:
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Understanding the risk impacts of business modernization and digital technologies
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Examining the growing disconnect between the goals of risk management and capabilities of risk management practices
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Acknowledging that risk management failures can lead to business failures
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Outlining the requirements of a mature and future ready risk management practice
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
—Charles Darwin, Naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution
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Abu el Ata, N., Drucbert, A. (2017). The Looming Danger: Mismanaging Risk . In: Leading from Under the Sword of Damocles. Springer Vieweg, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-56300-7_2
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