
42 Operational Risk and Resilience
three points considered critical during the developmental cycle.
For this, they pooled a vast amount of information relating to the
technical, clinical and commercial prospects of a project. The CFO
believes that over time ‘these risk management techniques should
shift our success rate.’
Case study: a large international pharmaceutical organization
One important risk management project at this organization, one
of the world’s largest pharmaceuticals companies, has been supply
chain risk analysis. An industry trend of the last few years has been
the outsourcing of manufacturing with a reduction in the numbers
of suppliers. ...