Managing Risk in Organizations: A Guide for ManagersISBN: 978-0-7879-6518-1
Hardcover
288 pages
August 2003, Jossey-Bass
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Managing Risk in Organizations offers a proven framework for
handling risks across all types of organizations. In this
comprehensive resource, David Frame—a leading expert in risk
management—examines the risks routinely encountered in
business, offers prescriptions to assess the effects of various
risks, and shows how to develop effective strategies to cope with
risks. In addition, the book is filled with practical tools and
techniques used by professional risk practitioners that can be
readily applied by project managers, financial managers, and any
manager or consultant who deals with risk within an organization.
Managing Risk in Organizations is filled with illustrative
case studies and
- Outlines the various types of risk—pure, operational, project, technical, business, and political
- Reveals what risk management can and cannot accomplish
- Shows how to organize risk management efforts to conduct risk assessments, manage crises, and recover from disasters
- Includes a systematic risk management processrisk management planning, risk identification, qualitative impact analysis, quantitative impact analysis, risk response planning, and monitoring control
- Provides quantitative and qualitative tools to identify and handle risks