Evaluation of the workshops on extended risk management

Volker Kraus Risk management from the view of the reinsurer, contribution to the workshop on Quality and Risk Management held in Hamburg in October 2003. 

In many of the case studies, emotional drivers were identified that affect innovation processes, especially if uncertainty about effects exists through lack of knowledge. The subject of this workshop was to determine the effect of more or less exphcit grriding principles on the interested parties and their contribution to sustainable developmerrt. 

The question is whether a guiding principle for a sustainable substance economy can make a contribution to alleviate some of these weaknesses. Ideas can be developed and illustrated using guiding principles around an ideal solution , an ideal substance and an ideal application system within a framework. Conversely, such idealisations provide a basis for what should be avoided, e.g. under precautionary aspects. 

Unlike other mechanisms for orientation, such as plans, objectives, paradigms, technological paths or dominant designs , effective guiding principles have certain specific features  

Guiding principles thus assume several functions because they  

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