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HRCM Book Series: An Author’s Perspective. Emery Roe Center for Catastrophic Risk Management, UC Berkeley & Co-author of High Reliability Management in the HRCM Series. An Author’s Perspective. Q : What is our book, High Reliability Management: Operating on the Edge (2008) about?
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HRCM Book Series: An Author’s Perspective Emery Roe Center for Catastrophic Risk Management, UC Berkeley & Co-author of High Reliability Management in the HRCM Series
An Author’s Perspective • Q: What is our book, High Reliability Management: Operating on the Edge (2008) about? • A: The neglected perspective in policy & management, namely, finding answers to the this very important question. . .
The Neglected Perspective What better practices do frontline professionals use to manage the shortfalls and errors that come with the way policy and technology are currently designed? This question, in turn, has two parts: --What are professionals in major critical infrastructures doing to prevent the built-in accidents and system failures which, if they did happened, would cost billions & billions? --Given more and more of these critical infrastructures are operating on the edge, what are these professionals actually doing when system failure or crisis happens?
An Author’s Perspective • The Importance of the Stanford University Press Series on High Reliability and Crisis Management to authors: • --Editorial coherence so the titles fit together • --Titles marketed together for longer impact • --…and more!