Operational Risk in Clinical Research: What Leaders Don’t See Until It’s Too Late
This brief is intended to help AMC, hospital, and health system leaders reframe how operational risk shows up in modern research environments. Most clinical research leaders track budgets, enrollment, timelines, and compliance closely. Yet one of the most expensive operational costs in research rarely shows up anywhere formal. It doesn’t appear in licensing. It doesn’t appear in budgets. It shows up in people. It shows up in the invisible
