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A Short Guide to Risk Appetite

A Short Guide to Risk Appetite

David Hillson

The book contains practical guidance to setting risk thresholds that take proper account of the influences of organisational risk culture and the individual risk preferences of key stakeholders.
Managing Overall Project Risk

Managing Overall Project Risk

David Hillson

This paper clarifies the concept of overall project risk, as distinct from individual risk, a topic which tends to be overlooked in risk management discourse.
Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures

Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures

Polly Morland

The stories in Risk Wise address fundamental questions about risk and our perceptions about risk-taking.
The Risk Doctor’s Cures for Common Risk Ailments:

The Risk Doctor’s Cures for Common Risk Ailments:

David Hillson

Written by noted risk management consultant David Hillson, aka The Risk Doctor, this book gives practical advice based on sound risk management principles and real-life cases.
Information Security Risk Analysis, Second Edition

Information Security Risk Analysis, Second Edition

Thomas R. Peltier

This book discusses the principle of risk management and its three key elements: risk analysis, risk assessment, and vulnerability assessment.
Managing Risk

Managing Risk

Alan Waring

This book offers a fresh perspective on the convergence of approaches to managing risk and introduces new developments in current thinking. Managing Risk pioneers an integrative and holistic approach to managing risk.
The Government of Risk: Understanding Risk Regulation Regimes

The Government of Risk: Understanding Risk Regulation Regimes

Christopher Hood

These key questions are explored in The Government of Risk. This book looks at anumber of risk regulations regimes, considers the respects in which they differ, and examines how these differences can be explained.
Exploiting Future Uncertainty: Creating Value from Risk

Exploiting Future Uncertainty: Creating Value from Risk

David Hillson

This book shows you how. In his role as The Risk Doctor, international risk consultant Dr David Hillson has advised many major organisations across the globe, showing them how to create value from risk.
Exploiting Future Uncertainty: Creating Value from Risk

Exploiting Future Uncertainty: Creating Value from Risk

Dr David Hillson

This book shows you how. In his role as The Risk Doctor, international risk consultant Dr David Hillson has advised many major organisations across the globe, showing them how to create value from risk.
Investment Risk and Uncertainty: Advanced Risk Awareness ...

Investment Risk and Uncertainty: Advanced Risk Awareness ...

Steven P. Greiner

Northfield Working Paper. www.northinfo.com/documentsl58.pdf. diBartolomeo, Dan. 2010. “Equity Risk, Credit Risk, Default Correlation and Corporate Sustainability." Journal of Investing, December. Driessen, Joost, Tse-Chun Lin, and ...
Worth the Risk

Worth the Risk

Robin Bielman

For a shot at love...is it worth the risk? Each book in the Take a Risk series is a standalone, full-length story that can be enjoyed out of order. Series Order: Book #1 Worth the Risk Book #2 Risky Surrender Book #3 His Million Dollar Risk
Information Security Risk Analysis

Information Security Risk Analysis

Thomas R. Peltier

The book steps you through the qualitative risk analysis process using techniques such as PARA (Practical Application of Risk Analysis) and FRAP (Facilitated Risk Analysis Process) to: Evaluate tangible and intangible risks Use the ...
Corporate Resiliency: Managing the Growing Risk of Fraud and ...

Corporate Resiliency: Managing the Growing Risk of Fraud and ...

Toby J. Bishop

This solutions-centered book discusses: Reducing risk management surprises through better fraud and corruption risk assessment approaches Using four different risk management strategies for the "Fears, Fires, Fleas, and Flaws" segments of ...
Managing Risk in Projects

Managing Risk in Projects

David Hillson

Managing Risk in Projects places risk management in its proper context in the world of project management and beyond, and emphasises the central concepts that are essential in order to understand why and how risk management should be ...
Project Risk Management: Essential Methods for Project Teams ...

Project Risk Management: Essential Methods for Project Teams ...

Yuri Raydugin

organizational framework, risk management process, and risk management tools —are introduced in this chapter. In a good project risk management plan, those components should be defined in detail. The three dimensions of an ...
Handbook of Risk Theory: Epistemology, Decision Theory, ...

Handbook of Risk Theory: Epistemology, Decision Theory, ...

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Carl F. Cranor: Toward a Premarket Approach to Risk Assessment to Protect Children Carl F. Cranor critically discusses risk legislation, specifically the postmarket approach to risk that is currently common in the USA and many other countries.
The Failure of Risk Management: Why It's Broken and How to ...

The Failure of Risk Management: Why It's Broken and How to ...

Douglas W. Hubbard

THE FAILURE OF RISK MANAGEMENT "Doug Hubbard, a recognized expert among experts in the field of risk management, covers the entire spectrum of risk management in this invaluable guide.
Risk Maturity Models: How to Assess Risk Management ...

Risk Maturity Models: How to Assess Risk Management ...

Domenic Antonucci

This book offers a practical solution for every organization that needs to monitor the effectiveness of their risk management.
How to Complete a Risk Assessment in 5 Days or Less

How to Complete a Risk Assessment in 5 Days or Less

Thomas R. Peltier

This is what risk assessment is all about. How to Complete a Risk Assessment in 5 Days or Less demonstrates how to identify threats your company faces and then determine if those threats pose a real risk to the organization.
Risk Management in Projects

Risk Management in Projects

Martin Loosemore

This second edition of the original practical and straightforward text retains the easy-to-read format, but has been expanded to encompass the entire risk management process and to give a fuller presentation of how risk is generally ...
Risk Matters in Healthcare: Communicating, Explaining and ...

Risk Matters in Healthcare: Communicating, Explaining and ...

Kay Mohanna

Risk management, assessment and reduction, alongside patient involvement, is an essential part of the current NHS reforms. This book draws together and summarises the latest information on risk in healthcare.
Mastering Illiquidity: Risk management for portfolios of ...

Mastering Illiquidity: Risk management for portfolios of ...

Thomas Meyer

Their unique characteristics however, require specific tools to measure and manage the risk associated with such investments. This book focuses primarily on the illiquidity risk premium that structurally illiquid asset classes may offer.
Evaluation for Risk of Violence in Juveniles

Evaluation for Risk of Violence in Juveniles

Robert Hoge

This book places juvenile risk assessment within the context of FMHA for juveniles, so those using it will find it particularly useful to incorporate into their evaluations of risk and needs for adolescents in the juvenile justice system.
Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk ...

Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk ...

Jonathan Levy

Until the nineteenth century, “risk” was a specialized term: it was the commodity exchanged in a marine insurance contract. Freaks of Fortune tells how the modern concept of risk emerged in the United States.
World at Risk

World at Risk

Ulrich Beck

World at Risk is a timely and far-reaching analysis of the structural dynamics of the modern world, the global nature of risk and the future of global politics by one of the most original and exciting social thinkers writing today.
World at Risk

World at Risk

Ulrich Beck

World at Risk is a timely and far-reaching analysis of the structural dynamics of the modern world, the global nature of risk and the future of global politics by one of the most original and exciting social thinkers writing today.
The Risk Management of Everything: Rethinking the Politics ...

The Risk Management of Everything: Rethinking the Politics ...

Michael Power

The risk management of everything implies a society of ‘small print’.” Power sees the rise of the ‘risk management of everything’ as a related trend to the audit culture, which included the government’s now widely criticised ...
The Psychology of Risk: Mastering Market Uncertainty

The Psychology of Risk: Mastering Market Uncertainty

Ari Kiev

This book bridges the gap between investor psychology and quantitative risk management with a revolutionary risk management program that virtually any trader or investor can easily adapt to their goals and personalities.
Managing Risk in Projects

Managing Risk in Projects

Dr David Hillson

Dr David Hillson. CHAPTER 5 INTEGRATING RISK MANAGEMENT WITH WIDER PROJECT MANAGEMENT In the years when risk management was developing as a discipline, it was perhaps natural for it to be treated as separate from ...
Mad Cows and Mother's Milk: The Perils of Poor Risk ...

Mad Cows and Mother's Milk: The Perils of Poor Risk ...

Douglas Alan Powell

An evaluation of the role of risk communication in dealing with public controversies - this text presents a number of case studies of risk including the "mad cow crises" in 1996 and what is commonly known as hamburger disease, caused by a ...

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