Browse Fitzpatrick, Michael

1-23 out of 23 article(s)

Title	Type	Date	Words
Battles of the tech intellects: intellectual property is the lifeblood of the technology industry and the loss of a patent can be fatal. From fighting "patent trolls" to safeguarding their ideas, technology companies see patents as a crucial risk management issue.		Sep 15, 2010	1523
Story boarding success: comic strip bridges cultural gaps and helps workers understand the need for safety on the job.		Sep 15, 2008	601
The gamer: an ex-Air Force pilot uses a game to mimic commercial real estate risks.		Sep 15, 2008	631
Beyond Fred Flintstone: vulcan adapts a browser-based system for on-site claims reporting and cuts costs by 40 percent.		Sep 15, 2008	590
Level on the level: one-stop shopping for an effective defense strategy in construction defect cases: beating the lawyers at their own game.		Sep 15, 2008	576
Patience nets many virtues: Dana Berry used the patience learned as an English teacher to rope sales into the risk management matrix.		Sep 15, 2008	537
Fear this: making headway by tackling others' fears.		Sep 15, 2008	443
Master Sleuths: litigators and consultants now search through gigabytes of data instead of boxes of paper files. Finding, collecting and reviewing all that digital information, however, is a very costly endeavor.	Cover story	May 1, 2008	2889
Surviving in a Darwinian world: technology companies live and die by their latest offerings, and executives may have to bet the company every few years just to survive. In this world, risk management takes on a whole different meaning. Insurance is just one part of the program.		Mar 1, 2007	1822
Risks more than skin deep: technology is getting under our skin--literally--as researchers and medical-device manufacturers turn to computer chips to control their products. But fusing men with machines leaves semiconductor companies with a new "underworld" of risks.	Company overview	Dec 1, 2006	3252
The crude calculus: drivers are longing for the days of cheap gasoline, and oil companies are pining for the days of cheap insurance. Those days are gone, swept away by hurricanes. Now the oil industry faces paying much more for much less when they go to buy windstorm coverage for their offshore rigs and platforms.		Sep 15, 2006	1839
'Fab'-rication splits an industry: semiconductor makers face a dilemma: whether to own or rent, build a billion-dollar plant, or "fab," or contract with another chipmaker. The stakes are high and the challenges daunting.		Mar 1, 2006	1967
Big Iron's back: after flirting with newer, distributed technology systems, insurers are taking a fresh look at the ones they originally brought to the dance. They're seeing new promise, and serious savings, in an old familiar technology--their mainframes.		Oct 1, 2005	1985
Firing up the paper chase: the world of insurance is built on documents, and a river of paper runs through it. After years of cost-cutting in the soft market, that flood of paper represents one of the few areas that insurers have left to cut costs. That has traditional document-handling vendors, and new entrants, looking at an old problem as a source of new profits.		Sep 1, 2005	1754
Risk floods the pipeline; America needs more natural gas. Other countries want to sell it to us. It's getting it here and into the pipelines that presents the risk, some of it physical but much of it political.		Aug 1, 2005	2952
Expanding the reach of RMIS: in today's world, risk managers need information they can act on, and a risk management information system that can deliver it--now. That means interesting times are ahead for RMIS vendors.		Jun 1, 2005	1584
Born to write code: it's a story straight out of Silicon Valley: A 5-year-old boy begins programming; gets a job writing code in high school; starts up a software company in college; secures venture capital funding and then turns an industry on its head. In Robert Morrell's case, the startup took root in Georgia, and risk management information technology will never be the same.		Apr 15, 2005	1262
'Gimme shelter': construction and engineering firms are crying "gimme shelter" as they seek to manage their risks amid a lack of insurance capacity, tighter coverage restrictions and a storm of litigation in the housing market.		Apr 15, 2005	2287
Protecting soft wares.		Feb 1, 2005	2960
Beefing up.		Nov 1, 2004	1234
Size matters: welcome to the wild and wooly world of nanotechnology, the dwelling place of nanotubes, nanoshells, fullerenes, "buckyballs," quantum dots and nanowhiskers. These objects are measured in the billionth-scale. As the size of these products shrink further, their risk in industrial use increases. Insurers remain wary.		Oct 1, 2004	2554
Brokers make a comeback.		Jun 1, 2004	1363
Words worth billions: there's no shortage of exclusionary language and restrictive terms in the fine print of humdrum homeowners' policies. But when it comes to defining an occurrence, or two, or three, in policies designed to protect billions of dollars belonging to some of the nation's largest companies, pinpoint definitions vanish in a semantic swamp.		Jun 1, 2004	1315