Oboni Riskope Associates Inc. and its mother company Riskope International SA (ORA, www.riskope.com ) have been active in the arena of Risk and Crisis Management (R&CM) Education since 1997, theyear that saw our first Continuing Education R&CM course offered at UBC (University of British Columbia). In the last decade ORA has given courses, seminars, workshops at industries, international organizations and universities world-wide (Europe, North and South America, Australia, SE Asia, Japan and main land China) meanwhile authoring a number of e-campus based courses (for an Italian Regional government, for Miners world-wide, etc.).
We have published over thirty technical papers focusing on key areas of risk and crisis management, and our book “Improving Sustainability through Reasonable Risk and Crisis Management (published 2007, C. & F. Oboni, ISBN 978-0-9784462-0-8), available through our web site, is used as textbook for all our courses.
Innovative concepts and ideas promoted by ORA have been adopted for example by large and prestigious mining corporations, UNDP, in areas as different as transport and logistics risk, go/no-go decisions, alternative transportation systems, humanitarian demining, operational risks, information warfare risks and many more. Among these concepts and ideas we can quote: defining and using quantitative risk tolerability criteria, using risk as an alternative discriminant in the decision making process (RBDM), replacing NPV as a project cost evaluator (CDA/ESM), but more importantly bringing Risk Analysis at inception of any project, thus transforming Risk Assessments into proactive tools for project management in key areas of any corporation or project.
