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Article: Navigating the public policy labyrinth: using risk analysis for tough issues: all organizations have intractable policy issues that lie outside the realm of conventional risk management. If risk managers wish to promote greater interest in risk techniques among all enterprise disciplines--they must ask themselves: How can complex issues be subjected to structured risk analysis?
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- Risk Management
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- December 1, 2006
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