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Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Decision theory > Risk assessment
There are many risks associated with IT projects that have the
potential to threaten the success of the project at any stage of
its development life cycle. By seeking commonalities between
knowledge management and risk management, a way by which they can
be integrated together to reduce these risks can be determined.
Knowledge Management Techniques for Risk Management in IT Projects:
Emerging Research and Opportunities is a collection of innovative
research that examines the tools and techniques of knowledge
management and integrates them with risk management techniques for
better analysis of risks that can occur in different stages of IT
projects. While highlighting topics including benchmark monitoring,
integration management, and knowledge banks, this book is ideally
designed for project managers, risk consultants, managers, industry
professionals, researchers, and academicians.
Assessment of risk and uncertainty is crucial for natural hazard
risk management, facilitating risk communication and informing
strategies to successfully mitigate our society's vulnerability to
natural disasters. Written by some of the world's leading experts,
this book provides a state-of-the-art overview of risk and
uncertainty assessment in natural hazards. It presents the core
statistical concepts using clearly defined terminology applicable
across all types of natural hazards and addresses the full range of
sources of uncertainty, the role of expert judgement and the
practice of uncertainty elicitation. The core of the book provides
detailed coverage of all the main hazard types and concluding
chapters address the wider societal context of risk management.
This is an invaluable compendium for academic researchers and
professionals working in the fields of natural hazards science,
risk assessment and management and environmental science, and will
be of interest to anyone involved in natural hazards policy.
Systemic Risk provides readers with a wide-ranging practical guide
to systemic risk in the financial system. It challenges the notion
that systemic risk is exclusively about interconnectivities within
the financial system, showing that past systemic risk crises have
often involved a broader range of vulnerabilities. It describes how
regulators and governments are seeking to manage systemic risk, and
how their concerns are driving change in regulatory and business
environments across the financial sector. It sets out how firms and
practitioners can effectively respond to these changes (covering
topics such as data needs, quantification of risk exposures,
management disciplines and skillset requirements etc.). It
highlights the sources and characteristics of systemic risk and the
concentrations of exposures to this risk. It also links systemic
risk with other risk disciplines including exploring how systemic
risk ties in with liquidity risk and credit risk and how it
interacts with central clearing, collateralisation and pricing of
derivatives.
Continuing its superiority in the health care risk management
field, this sixth edition of The Risk Management Handbook for
Health Care Organizations is written by the key practitioners and
consultant in the field. It contains more practical chapters and
health care examples and additional material on methods and
techniques of risk reduction and management. It also revises the
structure of the previous edition, and focuses on operational and
organizational structure rather than risk areas and functions. The
three volumes are written using a practical and user-friendly
approach.
Since 2007, the repeated financial crises around the world have
brought to the headlines financial practices and models considered
to fuel the economic instabilities. Deep Dive into Financial
Models: Modeling Risk and Uncertainty comes handy in demystifying
the underlying quantitative finance concepts. With a limited use of
mathematical formalism, the book explains thoroughly the models,
their hypotheses, principles and other building blocks. A
particular care is given to model limitations and their misuse for
investment strategies, asset pricing, or risk management. Its
reader-friendly nature provides readers with a head start in
quantitative finance.
This comprehensive, yet accessible, guide to enterprise risk
management for financial institutions contains all the tools needed
to build and maintain an ERM framework. It discusses the internal
and external contexts with which risk management must be carried
out, and it covers a range of qualitative and quantitative
techniques that can be used to identify, model and measure risks.
This new edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect new
legislation and the creation of the Financial Conduct Authority and
the Prudential Regulation Authority. It includes new content on
Bayesian networks, expanded coverage of Basel III, a revised
treatment of operational risk and a fully revised index. Over 100
diagrams are used to illustrate the range of approaches available,
and risk management issues are highlighted with numerous case
studies. This book also forms part of the core reading for the UK
actuarial profession's specialist technical examination in
enterprise risk management, ST9.
Assessing Student Threats: Implementing the Salem-Keizer System,
2nd Edition is a manual for the application of a threat assessment
system that follows the recommendations of the Safe Schools
Initiative and the prescriptive outline provided by the FBI.
Written from an educator's perspective with contributing authors
from Law Enforcement, Public Mental Health, and the District
Attorney's office, it contains an introduction to the basic
concepts of threat assessment, a review of the research, and an
outlined process for the application of a comprehensive, yet
expeditious multi-disciplinary system. The book also includes the
forms and protocols needed to assess threats, document concerns and
interventions, and track the progress of supervision. As extra
features, chapters on site security, community safety, domestic
violence and teen dating violence, communicating with potential
victims, training school resource officers, adult threat
assessment, and an adaptation of the system for higher education
are included.
Assessing Student Threats: Implementing the Salem-Keizer System,
2nd Edition is a manual for the application of a threat assessment
system that follows the recommendations of the Safe Schools
Initiative and the prescriptive outline provided by the FBI.
Written from an educator's perspective with contributing authors
from Law Enforcement, Public Mental Health, and the District
Attorney's office, it contains an introduction to the basic
concepts of threat assessment, a review of the research, and an
outlined process for the application of a comprehensive, yet
expeditious multi-disciplinary system. The book also includes the
forms and protocols needed to assess threats, document concerns and
interventions, and track the progress of supervision. As extra
features, chapters on site security, community safety, domestic
violence and teen dating violence, communicating with potential
victims, training school resource officers, adult threat
assessment, and an adaptation of the system for higher education
are included.
Natural disasters, instability in the finance and banking sector,
widespread social protests, and other crisis situations have
increasingly become the focus of public attention. With the growing
visibility of such events, accelerated by the rise and
proliferation of social media, the study of risk and crisis
management in the Internet age is of vital importance.Uncertainty
and Catastrophe Management is a clear and comprehensive guide to a
variety of crises, and seeks to offer practical advice on how best
to avoid them, minimize loss and damage once they have occurred,
and how best to recover from these situations. The book examines
104 cases that run the gamut from natural disasters such as the
2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, to social movements like the
Ukrainian protests in 2013, from the Syrian Electronic Army's
cyber-attacks, to the reputational damage to firms in the wake of a
corporate scandal.This book is a revised and expanded edition of
Akira Ishikawa and Atsushi Tsujimoto's book, Risk and Crisis
Management: 101 Cases, and explores a number of recent events. It
draws on the expertise of the contributors to the volume to create
a well-rounded book that will benefit professionals, academics, and
the general public alike. In particular, safety professionals,
public management professionals, CEOs, CIOs, students and
researchers will appreciate its pragmatic approach to dealing with
and recovering from crises in the interest of long-term survival
and sustainability.
The Nobel Prize-winning Father of Modern Portfolio Theory returns
with new insights on his classic work to help you build a lasting
portfolio today Contemporary investing as we know it would not
exist without these two words: "Portfolio selection." Though it may
not seem revolutionary today, the concept of examining and
purchasing many diverse stocks-creating a portfolio-changed the
face of finance when Harry M. Markowitz devised the idea in 1952.
In the past six decades, Markowitz has risen to international
acclaim as the father of Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT), with his
evaluation of the impact of asset risk, diversification, and
correlation in the risk-return tradeoff. In defending the idea that
portfolio risk was essential to strategic asset growth, he showed
the world how to invest for the long-run in the face of any
economy. In Risk Return Analysis, this groundbreaking four-book
series, the legendary economist and Nobel Laureate returns to
revisit his masterpiece theory, discuss its developments, and prove
its vitality in the ever-changing global economy. Volume 2 picks up
where the first volume left off, with Markowitz's personal
reflections and current strategies. In this volume, Markowitz
focuses on the relationship between single-period choices-now-and
longer run goals. He discusses dynamic systems and models, the
asset allocation "glide-path," inter-generational investment needs,
and financial decision support systems. Written with both the
academic and the practitioner in mind, this richly illustrated
volume provides investors, economists, and financial advisors with
a refined look at MPT, highlighting the rational decision-making
and probability beliefs that are essential to creating and
maintaining a successful portfolio today.
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