Enterprise risk management for automation in correctional facilities with pandemic and other stressors

Abstract

Real-time tracking of tool and equipment inventories is a critical function of many organizations and sectors. For prisons and correctional facilities, tracking and monitoring of assets such as cookware, hardware, keys, janitorial equipment, vocational/technical specialty tools, etc., is essential for safety, security, trust, efficiency, education, etc. The performance of automated systems for this purpose can be diminished by a variety of emergent and future sociotechnical factors alone and in combination. This article introduces a methodology for contractor evaluation and selection in acquisition of innovative asset management systems, with an emphasis on evolving system requirements under uncertainty. The methodology features a scenariobased preferences analysis of emergent and future conditions that are disruptive to the performance of the asset-control system. The conditions are across technologies, operating environments, regulations, workforce behaviors, offender behaviors, prices and markets, organizations, cyber threats, etc. The methodology addresses the influence and interaction of the conditions to disrupt system priorities. Examples include: (i) infectious disease disrupting priorities among requirements and (ii) radio-frequency identification (RFID) and wireless-technology innovations disrupting priorities among stakeholders. The combinations of conditions that most and least matter for the system acquisition are characterized. The methodology constitutes a risk register for monitoring sources of risk to project performance, schedule, and cost throughout the system lifecycle. The results will be of interest to both practitioners and scholars engaged in systems acquisition as the pandemic interacts with other factors to affect risk, uncertainty, and resilience of organizational missions and operations.

Systems analysis for energy assets of Iraq influenced by water scarcity

“…Scenario-based MCDA methods are broadly applicable across industries and have been used in enterprise risk analysis to evaluate emerging technological and health stressors in correctional facilities (Andrews et al 2023), cybersecurity investments (Moghadasi et al 2022), emerging technologies (Trump et al 2020), public health intervention strategies (Talantsev et al 2022), green energy investment strategies for energy services firms (Jenkins and Keisler 2022), and early initiatives for biofuel development (Connelly et al 2015). Bonato et al (2022) used scenario-based MCDA to evaluate informational and physical flood resilience measures in Venice.…”

Reconciling risk as threat and opportunity: The social construction of risk in boardrooms

“…It may well be that the risk register is better suited for less strategic discussion at lower levels of the organization by different institutional actors, where the specificity that can be obtained from them is more purposeful, such as in project management (see, e.g., Andrews et al, 2023). Another object discussed by some interviewees was a board member skills matrix.…”