1. Prologue

We introduce a scheme to prevent corporate fiascos based on the fact that an institution, its employees, the market it is associated with, and the economy in which it is an actor are all components of a biological spectrum. Within this natural scope we consider an institutional fiasco as analogous to a cancer in a human. We attempt early detection of the signs and/or symptoms of a cancer-like disease in an institution, called exceptions. The aberrant decisions of the exception-decision complex are analyzed and evaluated for a timely correction. The evaluation task is assisted by an Oversight organization unit operating in parallel with the institution authority. We extend the concept beyond institutions to the market and the economy. The prologue outlines what is conceived and defined, why and how the ideas and the scheme are developed over the eight chapters of the manuscript, including acknowledgements.