Rich, B.R. and Janos, Y., Skunk Works, Little Brown and Company, New York, 1994

I have had this book in my library for quite some time and although I've browsed it before, I recently had the opportunity to actually read it. Why I didn't read it earlier, I just don't know because it is just so full of stories and wisdom on many levels.

For those who don't know - the Skunk Works were (are still?) a top secret Lockheed shop for the design, development and manufacture of advanced and innovative aerospace systems. If U2, SR-71 Blackbird and stealth planes mean anything to you - then this book tells their story.

A Strategic Risk Based Approach to Regulating Technologies and Vulnerabilities based on HolisTech's® Regulatory Framework presented at the 2007 International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS`07), titled Risk, Vulnerability, Uncertainty, Technology and Society, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA in June 2007. Co-authored with Graham Durant-Law.

The paper outlines a strategic risk based approach to regulation based on the generic regulatory system developed with the participation of nine of Australia's premier regulatory organisations. The result is a generic strategic management paradigm of regulation and the various behavioural interactions that regulatory systems may utilise. It includes regulatory strategies that may be employed to influence how organisations and people behave, as well as other aspects of regulating, including regulatory metrics, regulatory types, and the mechanisms of regulation. The generic nature of the framework provides for its application in almost any context and to any objective. It also provides for a top-down strategic approach to risk management, an unfortunately all too rare occurrence.