Resilience Engineering

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

Lecturer

Didier Van Caillie

Language(s) of instruction

English language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

In an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous context, organizations must seek to maximize their impact and the results (financial, environmental and social) they generate, while minimizing the consequences of the internal and external risks they face.

This course focuses on this second objective:


First, it presents the techniques, tools and methodologies used in Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) to identify risks, characterize them, measure their criticality and act proactively to mitigate their impact or transfer their consequences;
Secondly, it presents the techniques, tools and methods that enable an organization to become more resilient (= able to cope with undesirable events, whatever their nature) by building a resilient system based on the right safety culture.

Learning takes place through a real case study, in a real context of an organization facing the challenge of rapid environmental change, starting with proactive waste management. Groups of 3 or 4 students will each analyze a different business unit of this organization, active in the world of animal medical research.




 

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

• Gaining the knowledge and understanding of one of the following fields: performance management systems, resilience engineering and risk management and being able to mobilize them in order to solve concrete management problems or cases
• Capacity to research autonomously and methodically the information needed to solve a complex, transversal management problem, to perform a rigorous analysis of it and to suggest pertinent solutions
• Understanding and being capable of using modelization methods in the fields of performance management and risk management when seeking a solution for a concrete management problem
• Providing concrete solutions to a management problem, integrating a dimension of technology, innovation or production
• Being capable of professional team work
• Developing leadership through the group work and through the use of the EFQM Model as a reference for work.
• Developing a critical sense (arguing)
• Developing a transversal, global vision
• Creative conception of solutions
• Professional capacity for oral and written communication
• Faced with a management problem, suggesting solutions that are ethical and socially responsible and that respect the principles of good governance

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Prerequisites (basics and principles) :

• Management accounting
• Management control
• Business Modeling, Control & Planning

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

As a group, you will give 2 "concepts and tools implementation" presentations:

• The first covers the stages of a "typical" integrated risk management process, and the tools specific to operational integrated risk management.
• The second covers the principles and tools of resilience engineering as applied in the industrial world.

• map the internal and external operational and organizational risks it faces in its active waste management process
• the design of a register of relevant risks enabling this organization to manage its organizational and operational risks, tested in practice on the identification of 3 different complementary risks
• a proposal for a global environmental transition strategy to be implemented whose risks are fully perceived, measured and mitigated.

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Blended learning


Further information:

The course is divided into 3 sessions of 3 hours each. These sessions consist of the presentation and discussion of the various tools used during the course and the follow-up, in the form of debriefings, of the progressive progress of the work in the organization. The schedule and location are available on the official Master Ingénieur de Gestion course schedule website.
The rest of the time will be spent working in the organization being studied. The course also entails two coaching sessions and a presentation of final results. 
 

 

Course materials and recommended or required readings

See the Lola Campus of HEC School of Management.

Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

oral exam

- Remote

oral exam

Written work / report

Continuous assessment


Additional information:

• Presentation 1: 20 points
• Presentation 2: 20 points
• Preparation, follow-up and defense of the work in the company: 60 points
  
  
  Relative weighting of the individual evaluation: 70 %
  
   

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

For any question, please contact :

• Prof. Didier Van Caillie : d.vancaillie@uliege.be
• Mme Louise Colling : louise.colling@uliege.be

Contacts

Teacher : Prof. Didier Van Caillie, d.vancaillie@uliege.be
 

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