asymptote inc provides methods and tools for innovative risk management. We focus on risk identification, the start point for robust risk assessment and mitigation; risks not identified are risks not managed.
Here are some excerpts of our work. They illustrate the diverse range of perspectives needed for successful mitigation of social risk. We always appreciate feedback. To learn more about our work or to get involved email us.
| Risk in Context | Context plays a fundamental role in our perception of reality. In language, context provides the basis for what words mean and how we learn to socialize. Context also introduces the unavoidable risk of deception.
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| Engineering the Subjective | One definition of contemporary engineering is: the application of the physical and social sciences to the needs of humanity and the development of technology. To engineer the subjective is to attempt to design social reality.
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| Gresham's Law 2.1 | Coined in 1857, Gresham's law is a monitary principle that bad money drives out good money. Word prediction cum generative text with AI algorithms may create the linguistic equivalent to the principle, bad context drives out good content.
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| The Other Social Risk | Environment-Social-Governance ESG is all about sustainability- who cares wins in commerce and culture. Social risk in ESG focuses on practices that may have untoward effects on people and the environment. Many ESG-social risks are managed as if they were objective. But there is another kind of social risk, the subjective risk of groups forming and doing real things, such as ruining brand reputation, only because of commonly held individual beliefs.
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