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Author: Paul Sweeting
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-08-07
Total Pages: 614
ISBN-13: 1107184614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn accessible guide to enterprise risk management for financial institutions. This second edition has been updated to reflect new legislation.
Author: Peter M. Sandman
Publisher: AIHA
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 093262751X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marcus Goncalves
Publisher: Technical Manager's Survival G
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780791860236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReviews 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
Author: Tom Kendrick
Publisher: AMACOM
Published: 2009-02-27
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0814413412
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner 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.
Author: Richard A. Posner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004-11-11
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 0195346394
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCatastrophic 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.
Author: Indrajit Pal
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2022-05-20
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 0323994369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPandemic Risk, Response, and Resilience: COVID-19 Responses in Cities Around the World examines the pandemic's global impacts on public health, economies, society and labor. The book shows how COVID-19 intensified natural and anthropogenic hazards and destroyed years of communities, governments and the work of development organizations and their investments. It focuses on how disaster resilience is central to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals in a post-COVID-19 era. Sections cover current governance practices, with special attention given to Asia's more successful responses. It shows how the various sectors across that society were most impacted by COVID-19, including tourism and food systems. This book is an essential reference for researchers and practitioners who need to understand response, preparedness and future pathways for pandemic resilience. - Showcases risk governance at local, national and regional scales - Captures multidisciplinary and multi-sectoral insights through numerous case studies - Uniquely addresses, in a comprehensive and structure manner, risk governance methodologies
Author: National Academy of Engineering
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2004-09-16
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 0309092167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2005-02-25
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 0309181615
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEffective 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.
Author: Tom DeMarco
Publisher: Pearson Education
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 0133492052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: V.T. Covello
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1461315697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the greatest challenges facing those concerned with health and environmental risks is how to carry on a useful public dialogue on these subjects. In a democracy, it is the public that ultimately makes the key decisions on how these risks will be controlled. The stakes are too high for us not to do our very best. The importance of this subject is what led the Task Force on Environmental Cancer and Heart and Lung Disease to establish an Interagency Group on Public Education and Communication. This volume captures the essence of the "Workshop on the Role of Government in Health Risk Communication and Public Education" held in January 1987. It also includes some valuable appendixes with practical guides to risk communication. As such, it is an important building block in the effort to improve our collective ability to carry on this critical public dialogue. Lee M. Thomas Administrator, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Chairman, The Task Force on Environmental Cancer and Heart and Lung Disease Preface The Task Force on Environmental Cancer and Heart and Lung Disease is an interagency group established by the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977 (P.L. 95-95). Congress mandated the Task Force to recommend research to determine the relationship between environmental pollutants and human disease and to recommend research aimed at reduc ing the incidence of environment-related disease. The Task Force's Project Group on Public Education and Communication focuses on education as a means of reducing or preventing disease.
