 particularly well suited to the ‘systems approach’ which compels management teams to identify and examine risks in independent and dependent variable contexts relative to (a.) asset vulnerability, (b.) probability of occurrence, and (c,) criticality, i.e., potential for significant adverse cascading effects throughout a company and its stakeholders should they materialize.
An OR approach to risk would entail examining business risk(s) that may, for example, have a relatively low probability for occurrence, but carry inordinately high consequences (criticality) making it more challenging to return to a state of operational-financial normalcy.
Thus, OR is much more than mere defensive posturing. It involves proactive attitudes and practices that recognize 65+% of most company’s value, sources of revenue, and building blocks for growth and sustainability evolve directly from intangible assets. Ironically, this requires management teams, c-suites, and boards to recognize that materialized risks or adverse events may, for organizationally resilient firms, present opportunities to further exploit its intangible assets, presuming other industry sector companies and/or competitors are experiencing similar risk events simultaneously.
A firm’s ability to rapidly, efficiently, and effectively adapt to change and uncertainty (risk) are being ratcheted up on company agendas as action items requiring higher priorities. In OR parlance, the vulnerability, probability, and criticality associated with potential and/or materialized risks, be they natural, intentional, or unintentional, represent a strong rationale why companies need to achieve a level of resilience that fits their respective market, industry sector, and business (transaction) environment. More specifically, a recovery and adaptive oriented OR strategy can no longer be dismissed or relegated to merely being an ’after thought’.
An initial step toward achieving an organizationally resilient firm puts the onus on management teams and c-suites to recognize the unique elements and features (intangible assets) that are routinely embedded in company operations and functions. In other words, preserve (intangible) assets that underlie a company’s profitability, competitive advantages, and sustainability, i.e., reputation, brand, intellectual – relationship capital, goodwill, image, etc.
Intangibles though, often go un-noticed and un-protected in conventional risk management and business continuity-contingency planning. I say this in the context that I have yet to engage a management team or board member that does not hold the view that every business or company, particularly theirs, possesses nuanced and unique features that contribute to its success. Referring to such features as intangible assets though, seldom occurs.
Another step toward achieving an organizationally resilient company is to identify ways to measurably improve on its ability to adapt and rapidly recover from significant (business) disruptions, materialized risks, and/or significant changes in the business (value-supply chain) environment. In other words, remain financially and competitively viable for the duration of the adverse – disruptive event!
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George Fant has tattoos on his arms.Q: Why does writing to a named pipe continue after no one is reading? I'm doing some experiments to learn about named pipes. It's my understanding that the OS will block a program that writes to a named pipe until another program reads from the named pipe. So I've written two programs, startloop and readbyte. startloop creates a fifo and continually writes to it with each read of the client (readbyte):
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    const char num = 123;
    mkfifo("fifo", S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IWGRP);
    int fd = open("fifo", O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH);
    while (1) {
        printf("loop_start\n");
        write(fd, &num, sizeof(num));
    }
    close(fd);
    return 0;
}

readbyte reads one byte from the fifo when run:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <fcntl.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    char num;
    int fd;
    if ((fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH)) == -1) {
        perror("Cannot open input file\n"); exit(1);
    }

    read(fd, &num, sizeof(num));
    printf("%d\n", num);
    close(fd);
    return 0;
}

readbyte prints the number as expected when run on "fifo":
hostname:dir username$./readbyte fifo 
65

As I expect, loopstart doesn't print anything until I read from the fifo with readbyte. However, when it becomes unblocked, it writes to "fifo" several times instead of immediately being suspended. Why is this?
hostname:dir username$./startloop
loop_start
loop_start
loop_start
loop_start
loop_start
loop_start
loop_start
loop_start
loop_start
loop_start
loop_start
loop_start
loop_start
loop_start
loop_start
loop_start
loop_start
loop_start
loop_start
loop_start


A: "It's my understanding that the OS will block a program that writes to a named pipe until another program reads from the named pipe."
That understanding is incorrect. write will not block unless the pipe/fifo is full. From the pipe manul:

A pipe has a limited capacity. If the pipe is full, then a write(2)
  will block or fail, depending on whether the O_NONBLOCK flag is set
  (see below).

As to why the first write appears to block - it actually doesn't. It is the open that blocks. From the fifo manaul:

The FIFO must be opened on both ends (reading and writing) before data
  can be passed. Normally, opening the FIFO blocks until the other end
  is opened also.

Update: Actually the above is true for the first write. But there is probably more to explanation. Once the readbyte program closes the fifo, subsequent write calls should start failing.

A: test the write result
 while (1) {
        printf("loop_start\n");
     int ret =  write(fd, &num, sizeof(num));
     if(ret == -1)
     {
        perror("error writing to fifo");
        exit(1);
     }
    }

I know that the halakha requiresn'ttilath yadhayim before the recitation of sh'ma, before t'phila, and before and after eating bread (cf. Hilkhoth B'rakhoth 6). And I also understand thatn'ttilath yadhayim requires a k'li and koah nothen (and clean, unused water etc., ibid.), but my question is if clean hands is the goal, then why wouldn't washing one's hands under a faucet work? What is the point of all of the particulars listed in the halak