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Pharma boards confuse scenario models with risk measurements

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Boards in the pharmaceutical industry are misinterpreting scenario models as concrete risk measurements, leading to confusion and potentially flawed decision-making. A £312 million figure, representing a modeled future loss from a third-party clinical platform breach under specific conditions, was presented as a direct exposure. This conflation of conditional future scenarios with present-day measured costs obscures the actual financial impact and hinders effective risk assessment. AI

IMPACT This article discusses risk management in pharma and does not directly relate to AI.

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Pharma boards confuse scenario models with risk measurements

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  1. Forbes — Innovation TIER_1 English(EN) · Maman Ibrahim, CommunityVoice ·

    Why Pharma Boards Confuse Scenario Models With Risk Measurements

    You cannot see that decision when the base case and scenario are mashed into one frightening total. The board needs cleaner numbers.

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