Financial Enterprise Risk Management

Financial Enterprise Risk Management

Author: Paul Sweeting

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-08-07

Total Pages: 614

ISBN-13: 1107184614

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An accessible guide to enterprise risk management for financial institutions. This second edition has been updated to reflect new legislation.


Risk Management for Project Managers

Risk Management for Project Managers

Author: Marcus Goncalves

Publisher: Technical Manager's Survival G

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780791860236

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Reviews for the newest volume in The Technical Manager's Survival Guides book series. "Good read. This book is a template for managing complex businesses and contains information that every Asset Manager should know. Highly recommended." --James Willey, P.E., Vice President, Pearl Energy Philippines Operating, Inc. "Uncertainty, or risk, is an essential part of life so that thoughtful action can influence the success or failure of endeavours. This is nowhere more apparent than in projects, where poor risk management often leads to failure. Goncalves and Heda's new book makes a valuable contribution to the project risk management literature, highlighting the need to systematically and practically manage risks, and gives valuable best-practice advice on how this can be done effectively and efficiently. It is a concise, easy read for non-technical managers who will find it full of practical information." --Richard Whitfield PhD, President, East-West Institute for Advanced Studies, Macau, China "Marcus's new guide to risk management provides pragmatic advice that project managers can use to help them frame risks, use that knowledge to retain control of their projects and get their project completed with a minimum number of unpleasant surprises. An excellent book that all project managers should keep on their book shelf." --Rick Welch, Senior Vice President of Services, Demandware Corporation, Burlington, MA, USA


Operational Risk Management

Operational Risk Management

Author: Mark D. Abkowitz

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-03-31

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0470281863

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Operational Risk Management offers peace of mind to business and government leaders who want their organizations to be ready for any contingency, no matter how extreme. This invaluable book is a preparatory resource for when times are good, and an emergency reference when times are bad. Operational Risk Management is destined to become every risk manager?s ultimate weapon to help his or her organization survive ? no matter what.


Identifying and Managing Project Risk

Identifying and Managing Project Risk

Author: Tom Kendrick

Publisher: AMACOM

Published: 2009-02-27

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0814413412

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Winner of the Project Management Institute’s David I. Cleland Project Management Literature Award 2010 It’s no wonder that project managers spend so much time focusing their attention on risk identification. Important projects tend to be time constrained, pose huge technical challenges, and suffer from a lack of adequate resources. Identifying and Managing Project Risk, now updated and consistent with the very latest Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)® Guide, takes readers through every phase of a project, showing them how to consider the possible risks involved at every point in the process. Drawing on real-world situations and hundreds of examples, the book outlines proven methods, demonstrating key ideas for project risk planning and showing how to use high-level risk assessment tools. Analyzing aspects such as available resources, project scope, and scheduling, this new edition also explores the growing area of Enterprise Risk Management. Comprehensive and completely up-to-date, this book helps readers determine risk factors thoroughly and decisively...before a project gets derailed.


The Owner's Role in Project Risk Management

The Owner's Role in Project Risk Management

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2005-02-25

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 0309181615

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Effective risk management is essential for the success of large projects built and operated by the Department of Energy (DOE), particularly for the one-of-a-kind projects that characterize much of its mission. To enhance DOE's risk management efforts, the department asked the NRC to prepare a summary of the most effective practices used by leading owner organizations. The study's primary objective was to provide DOE project managers with a basic understanding of both the project owner's risk management role and effective oversight of those risk management activities delegated to contractors.


Catastrophe

Catastrophe

Author: Richard A. Posner

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2004-11-11

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 0195346394

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Catastrophic risks are much greater than is commonly appreciated. Collision with an asteroid, runaway global warming, voraciously replicating nanomachines, a pandemic of gene-spliced smallpox launched by bioterrorists, and a world-ending accident in a high-energy particle accelerator, are among the possible extinction events that are sufficiently likely to warrant careful study. How should we respond to events that, for a variety of psychological and cultural reasons, we find it hard to wrap our minds around? Posner argues that realism about science and scientists, innovative applications of cost-benefit analysis, a scientifically literate legal profession, unprecedented international cooperation, and a pragmatic attitude toward civil liberties are among the keys to coping effectively with the catastrophic risks.


Global Risk Management

Global Risk Management

Author: Louise K. Comfort

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-08-31

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1000555992

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The rise and spread of Covid-19 in the beginning of 2020 presents a once-in-a-century challenge and opportunity for decision makers, managers, scholars, and citizens to understand the risks, mitigate its impact and prepare for future crises. Drawing on a global network of scholars, this book presents a comparative analysis of ten nations’ response to a global pandemic, while operating nominally under the framework of the World Health Organization. The book introduces the concept of ‘collective cognition’ as an analytic lens for examining the nations’ response to Covid-19 during the first six months of the emerging pandemic (January – June 2020) and draws out insights for improving systems of global risk management. This book addresses four primary audiences: policy-makers and leaders in nations struggling to contain viruses while guiding their societies under threat; academic researchers, students, and educators engaged in preparing the next generation of professionals committed to investigating emerging risk: managers of non-profit and private organizations that operate and maintain the networks of social, technical, and economic services that are essential to functioning communities; and the informed general public interested in understanding this extraordinary sequence of events and in managing the novel risk of COVID-19 in a more informed, responsible way.


Accident Precursor Analysis and Management

Accident Precursor Analysis and Management

Author: National Academy of Engineering

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2004-09-16

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 0309092167

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In the aftermath of catastrophes, it is common to find prior indicators, missed signals, and dismissed alerts that, had they been recognized and appropriately managed before the event, could have resulted in the undesired event being averted. These indicators are typically called "precursors." Accident Precursor Analysis and Management: Reducing Technological Risk Through Diligence documents various industrial and academic approaches to detecting, analyzing, and benefiting from accident precursors and examines public-sector and private-sector roles in the collection and use of precursor information. The book includes the analysis, findings and recommendations of the authoring NAE committee as well as eleven individually authored background papers on the opportunity of precursor analysis and management, risk assessment, risk management, and linking risk assessment and management.


Waltzing with Bears

Waltzing with Bears

Author: Tom DeMarco

Publisher: Pearson Education

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 0133492052

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This is the digital version of the printed book (Copyright © 2003). If There's No Risk On Your Next Project, Don't Do It. Greater risk brings greater reward, especially in software development. A company that runs away from risk will soon find itself lagging behind its more adventurous competition. By ignoring the threat of negative outcomes-in the name of positive thinking or a can-do attitude-software managers drive their organizations into the ground. In Waltzing with Bears, Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister-the best-selling authors of Peopleware-show readers how to identify and embrace worthwhile risks. Developers are then set free to push the limits. The authors present the benefits of risk management, including that it makes aggressive risk-taking possible, protects management from getting blindsided, provides minimum-cost downside protection, reveals invisible transfers of responsibility, isolates the failure of a subproject. Readers are armed with strategies for confronting the most common risks that software projects face: schedule flaws, requirements inflation, turnover, specification breakdown, and under-performance. Waltzing with Bears will help you mitigate the risks-before they turn into project-killing problems. Risks are out there-and they should be there-but there is a way to manage them.