This paper proposes formal computational descriptions of “what can go wrong” (WCGW) in an enterprise. Further, it introduces the idea that these formal WCGW artifacts can be represented as patterns that can be stored in an open knowledge repository (OKR), in a format that allows access to...

The world seems to be getting more dangerous: terrorists; fraudulent corporations; money laundering; hurricanes; pandemics. Governments and organizations respond with a flurry of new controls. In some cases these are centrally mandated (e.g. Sarbanes Oxley). In others, organizations struggle to...