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Aware that a single crisis event can devastate their business,
managers must be prepared for the worst from an expansive array of
threats. The Routledge Companion to Risk, Crisis and Security in
Business comprises a professional and scholarly collection of work
in this critical field. Risks come in many varieties, and there is
a growing concern for organizations to respond to the challenge.
Businesses can be severely impacted by natural and man-made
disasters including: floods, earthquakes, tsunami, environmental
threats, terrorism, supply chain risks, pandemics, and white-collar
crime. An organization's resilience is dependent not only on their
own system security and infrastructure, but also on the wider
infrastructure providing health and safety, utilities,
transportation, and communication. Developments in risk security
and management knowledge offer a path towards resilience and
recovery through effective leadership in crisis situations. The
growing body of knowledge in research and methodologies is a basis
for decisions to safeguard people and assets, and to ensure the
survivability of an organization from a crisis. Not only can
businesses become more secure through risk management, but an
effective program can also facilitate innovation and afford new
opportunities. With chapters written by an international selection
of leading experts, this book fills a crucial gap in our current
knowledge of risk, crisis and security in business by exploring a
broad spectrum of topics in the field. Edited by a
globally-recognized expert on risk, this book is a vital reference
for researchers, professionals and students with an interest in
current scholarship in this expanding discipline.
Within the area of safety, different perspectives exist on how to
provide an adequate basis for managing risk. Safety experts
emphasize the cautionary principle, stating that in the face of
uncertainty, caution should be the dominant standard. On the other
hand, relying on economic assessment often leads to decisions made
using expected values to optimize return on investment. Safety Risk
Management: Integrating Economic and Safety Perspectives aims to
illuminate this dichotomy while debating important questions. For
example, is 'safety always first?' Additionally, in many risk
environments only partial knowledge is available and limited
emphasis may be mistakenly given to uncertainty. Risk management
deals with balancing the dilemma inherent in exploring
opportunities on the one hand, and avoiding losses, accidents, and
disasters, on the other. Safety Risk Management: Integrating
Economic and Safety Perspectives comprises a collection of work in
this field with special focus given to situations with the
potential for substantial reward but also with the possibility of
immense losses and extreme consequences. This book aims to
contribute to clarifying the problem by proposing an appropriate
basis for managing risk to meet related practical challenges. The
book consists of two parts: chapters covering fundamental concepts
and approaches; and, chapters illustrating applications of these
fundamental principles.
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Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, Economics, and Management - International Conference, MS 2012, New Rochelle, NY, USA, May 30 - June 1, 2012, Proceedings (Paperback)
Kurt J Engemann, Anna M Gil-Lafuente, Jose M. Merigo Lindahl
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This book contains the refereed proceedings of the International
Conference on Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, Economics,
and Management, MS 2012, held in New Rochelle, NY, USA, in May/June
2012. The event was co-organized by the AMSE Association and Iona
College. The 27 full papers in this book were carefully reviewed
and selected from 78 submissions. In addition to these papers a
summary of the plenary presentation given by Ronald R. Yager is
also included. The book mainly focuses on the field of intelligent
systems and its application to economics and business
administration. Some papers have a stronger orientation towards
modeling and simulation in these fields.
Managing risk necessitates an understanding of both how to avoid
detrimental outcomes and to reap beneficial results. Organizations
are regularly confronted with complex decisions involving risk and
the impending consequences of the negative impact of its
manifestation. However, the positive aspects of embracing risk
should also be sufficiently evaluated to obtain a full assessment
of opportunities. Socio-Political Risk Management: Assessing and
Managing Global Insecurity covers a range of viewpoints and issues
which can be applied to various organizational agency structures.
These perspectives examine how social and political risk can impact
an agency, and what recommendations are made to adapt, mitigate,
and strengthen the organization against political risk.
Accessibility to personnel and agencies via social media, the
internet and public exposure compounded with political and social
societal shifts have led many agencies in a constant spin to
assuage and sustain viability and relevance publicly.
Socio-Political Risk Management: Assessing and Managing Global
Insecurity serves the readers by raising awareness and the
necessity to control social and political risks in their
organizations. This volume explores pathways for those in differing
organizational structures to find common threads pertaining to
social and political risks. An important goal of the work is also
to develop a framework for managing and exploiting risk that can be
applied at the organizational level.
Every organization faces difficult decisions when managing risk and
the potential consequences of its manifestation. For a more
thorough outlook on risk, organizations should also evaluate and
engage with its advantages. Organizational Risk Management:
Managing for Uncertainty and Ambiguity covers a series of
perspectives that represent both causal and interpretative
frameworks. These perspectives shed light on how organizational
structures and processes adapt amid a complex, dynamic
organizational environment in an effort to manage and exploit the
accompanying risks of that environment. This volume will oftentimes
challenge the expectation for and utility of clarity in crisis
situations, thereby favoring uncertainty and ambiguity as the
necessary conditions to exploit organizational risk and explore
opportunities that rely on interpretation, learning, and knowledge
among individuals. The ultimate objective of Organizational Risk
Management: Managing for Uncertainty and Ambiguity is to promote
discussion among practitioners and organizational scholars who
venture to understand organizational risk. Setting such a goal is
to essentially practice what this volume shall inevitably preach:
engage one another in order to proactively monitor and respond to
risk. Strengthening ties along the bridge between practice and
science will be a welcomed consequence of this volume.
Aware that a single crisis event can devastate their business,
managers must be prepared for the worst from an expansive array of
threats. The Routledge Companion to Risk, Crisis and Security in
Business comprises a professional and scholarly collection of work
in this critical field. Risks come in many varieties, and there is
a growing concern for organizations to respond to the challenge.
Businesses can be severely impacted by natural and man-made
disasters including: floods, earthquakes, tsunami, environmental
threats, terrorism, supply chain risks, pandemics, and white-collar
crime. An organization's resilience is dependent not only on their
own system security and infrastructure, but also on the wider
infrastructure providing health and safety, utilities,
transportation, and communication. Developments in risk security
and management knowledge offer a path towards resilience and
recovery through effective leadership in crisis situations. The
growing body of knowledge in research and methodologies is a basis
for decisions to safeguard people and assets, and to ensure the
survivability of an organization from a crisis. Not only can
businesses become more secure through risk management, but an
effective program can also facilitate innovation and afford new
opportunities. With chapters written by an international selection
of leading experts, this book fills a crucial gap in our current
knowledge of risk, crisis and security in business by exploring a
broad spectrum of topics in the field. Edited by a
globally-recognized expert on risk, this book is a vital reference
for researchers, professionals and students with an interest in
current scholarship in this expanding discipline.
Managing risk is essential for every organization. However,
significant opportunities may be lost by concentrating on the
negative aspects of risk without bearing in mind the positive
attributes. The objective of Project Risk Management: Managing
Software Development Risk is to provide a distinct approach to a
broad range of risks and rewards associated with the design,
development, implementation and deployment of software systems. The
traditional perspective of software development risk is to view
risk as a negative characteristic associated with the impact of
potential threats. The perspective of this book is to explore a
more discerning view of software development risks, including the
positive aspects of risk associated with potential beneficial
opportunities. A balanced approach requires that software project
managers approach negative risks with a view to reduce the
likelihood and impact on a software project, and approach positive
risks with a view to increase the likelihood of exploiting
opportunities. Project Risk Management: Managing Software
Development Risk explores software development risk both from a
technological and business perspective. Issues regarding strategies
for software development are discussed and topics including risks
related to technical performance, outsourcing, cybersecurity,
scheduling, quality, costs, opportunities and competition are
presented. Bringing together concepts across the broad spectrum of
software engineering with a project management perspective, this
volume represents both a professional and scholarly perspective on
the topic.
If You re New to Business Continuity Planning
or Want a Thorough Corporate Training Tool
with a Variety of Instructional Aids
5 REASONS You ll Want the Most Comprehensive and Up to Date
Business Continuity Handbook Available (c2012):
1) State-of-the-art exposition of the global body of knowledge for
Business Continuity Management and Risk Management, " including
current international standards and best practices."
2) Flexible, modular design that allows you to customize your own
self-study plan: Ten chapters cover fundamental principles and
practices; three chapters give greater detail on Information
Technology and Emergency Management if your work focuses in these
areas; and four chapters explain Risk Modeling if you want a
foundation in the statistical underpinnings of risk management.
3) Comprehensive training package for professional development
classes, including instructor materials: test bank, syllabi,
PowerPoint slides, and sample solutions to case studies,
discussions, and end-of-chapter questions. Two of the case studies
are integrated throughout the text to give managers experience in
applying chapter principles to a service company and a
manufacturer.
4) Holistic coverage of two interfacing fields: Business
Continuity, which tends to deal with consequences, and Risk
Management, which tends to be preventative. Both The Business
Continuity Institute (BCI) and The Institute of Risk Management
(IRM) have endorsed the book.
5) Quick desk reference for your BCM team offering a readable
blend of academic principles and practical applications an
effective tool for grounding interdepartmental teams learning to
develop and maintain BC plans.
Kurt J. Engemann, PhD, CBCP, is the Director of the Center for
Business Continuity and Risk Management and Professor of
Information Systems in the Hagan School of Business at Iona
College. Dr. Engemann is editor-in-chief of the International
Journal of Business Continuity and Risk Management. Professionals
from a number of Wall Street banking firms and Fortune 500
companies attend his graduate courses in business continuity and
risk management.
Douglas M. Henderson, FSA, CBCP, is President of Disaster
Management, Inc. and has consulting experience of 20+years in all
areas of Business Continuity and Emergency Response Management. He
is the author of several books and templates for business
continuity planning.
This is a book that will inform the novice, support the expert and
enhance every business continuity planner s efforts to create a
resilient organization. The book is well organized as an
instructional tool, a reference guide, and a toolkit for
practitioners . an executive, a student, or a practitioner who
absorbs the content of this book will be better prepared to
function in a field where preparedness is absolutely essential.
" Thomas D. Phelan, PhD, Program Director, Emergency and Disaster
Management and Fire Science at American Public University System;
Founding Member of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security"
Practitioners constantly emphasize the necessity of a holistic
approach and I am pleased to see this new book does just that. It
is also important to blend theory with practice in this hands-on
field; again this is accomplished by authors who have extensive
academic and business continuity and emergency management
experience. They bring the subject to life with rich teaching and
learning features, making it an essential read for students and
practitioners alike.
" Phil Kelly, DBA, FHEA, (FIRM); Senior Lecturer, Liverpool (UK)
Business School; Lead Examiner, Risk Decisions, The Institute of
Risk Management (IRM)"
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