Risk Management
Data Mining Cookbook: Modeling Data for Marketing, Risk and Customer Relationship Management
CD-ROM contains the actual models that are described in the book, providing examples of the most commonly asked data mining questions regarding marketing, sales, and customer support applications. Complete working code written in SAS, the most popular mining modeling language, is also provided. Readers can use the CD-ROM to directly implement the models for business use- -resulting in better campaigns, improved customer service, and increased profits.
Risk Management
These turbulent times have meant increased awareness of risk management and have lead to late breaking developments in new research, techniques, and theories in the field. Given the high stakes in today's business world with financial dealings in the billions (e.g., derivatives), it's easy to see why risk management has become the key buzzword on Wall Street. While Jorion focuses strictly on market risk, today's financial professionals are also evaluating credit risk and operational risk. Managing Risk provides a comprehensive description and analysis of modern risk management, including the regulatory aspects, organizational issues, potential problem areas, and tools to control and manage the many different kinds of risks: market risk, credit risk, and operational risk. It also discusses: structuring and managing the risk management function in a firm; practical measurement issues in the field; risk management in both financial and non-financial institutions.
Risk Management in Banking, 2nd Edition
This new edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect new developments in the field, the latest research, and the changing emphasis in current practice. It considers all aspects of risk management, a vital topic within the banking industry, including: asset liability management, risk-based capital, value at risk, loan portfolio management, credit risk, market risk, interest rate risk, liquidity risk, fund transfer pricing, and capital allocation.
Risk Management and Analysis: Measuring and Modelling Financial Risk
Carol Alexander has compiled an impressive list of contributors offering the most up-to-date techniques of risk management and the practical implementation of these techniques. The classic Handbook of Risk Management and Analysis has been updated and expanded into two volumes--Risk Measurement and Management and Markets and Products.
Project and Program Risk Management: A Guide to Managing Project Risks and Opportunities
Brevity and ease of reference make this handbook a useful introduction to risk in the project or program environment. The book provides a simplified understanding of the nature of project risk and opportunity, and a systematic approach to risk reduction. You’ll get useful insights into the process of project risk management whether you’re working on a small administrative project, a large capital works project, or anything in between. Concepts, tools, and techniques covered include: risk identification, risk assessment goals and methodology, computer applications, risk response and documentation, management of contingency allowances, managing risks of the project’s environment, and dealing with risks in contracts.
The CRM Project Management Handbook: Building Realistic Expectations and Managing Risk
Once you have bought into the concept of customer relationship management (CRM), how do you separate the practical and useful from the pie-in-the-sky to plan, scope and implement a project that delivers tangible results? With CRM project failure rates running as high as 80 per cent, anyone unable to answer this question stands every chance of becoming yet another accident statistic. Subjects covered include: Whether you should even be launching a project; Building a realistic foundation for CRM; Establishing a realistic budget; Ensuring commitment from both management and users; Coping with organizational change and company politics; Managing international CRM projects while recognizing local realities.
Identifying and Managing Project Risk: Essential Tools for Failure-Proofing Your Project
There's a good reason project risk management is one of the most vital of the nine content areas of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (TM). Important projects tend to be time constrained, pose huge technical challenges, and suffer from a lack of adequate resources. It's no wonder that project managers are increasingly focusing their attention on risk identification. Identifying and Managing Project Risk is a practical guide to minimizing the possibility of failure in critical projects. The book takes readers step by step through every phase of a project, showing them how to consider the possible risks involved at every point in the process. Relevant figures and diagrams support the text and illustrate key scenarios. At the end of each chapter is an analysis of how the principles just discussed applied to a supreme example of what many once considered a truly impossible project: the building of the Panama Canal.
Managing Risk in Organizations: A Guide for Managers
Risk management is the process of handling risk in a conscious fashion. In this book, best-selling author David Frame provides a universal 5-step framework for handling risks across all types of organizations. Frame's book combines qualitative and quantitative techniques to provide an accessible approach that can cross all disciplines, while addressing the unique issues of each.
Operational Risk: Regulation, Analysis and Management
Developments in IT and e-commerce, large-scale mergers and acquisitions, andincreased outsourcing all suggest that operational risk exposures are substantial and growing. In recent years, bankers and financial professions have recognized the crucial and growing importance of operational risk management, and the field is currently undergoing a surge of innovation and development. In this authoritative, up-to-date book, Operational Risk, leading operational risk management expert Carol Alexander brings together contributions from the world's leading experts to identify today's best practices for measuring and managing operational risks, and assessing them in the broader context of all risk.
Effective Risk Management: Some Keys to Success
A California-based management and technology consultant, Conrow describes practices that can be used by both project managers and technical practitioners including those who are unfamiliar with risk management. He explains how to develop, implement, and monitor plans to answer risk issues before and after problems arise. He also cites examples of erroneous risk management practices and analyzes how the practice is flawed. The information can be used to evaluate an existing risk management process, identify some of the shortfalls, and develop and implement enhancements.
Enterprise Risk Management: From Incentives to Controls
Enterprise risk management is a complex yet critical issue that all companies must deal with as they head into the twenty-first century. It empowers you to balance risks with rewards as well as people with processes. But to master the numerous aspects of enterprise risk management, you must first realize that this approach is not only driven by sound theory but also by sound practice. No one knows this better than risk management expert James Lam. In Enterprise Risk Management: From Incentives to Controls, Lam distills twenty years' worth of experience in this field to give you a clear understanding of both the art and science of enterprise risk management.
The Timid Corporation: Why Business is Terrified of Taking Risk
This book looks at changing managerial styles in business and the predominance of risk aversion behavior over risk taking behavior. The author explores the various reasons (regulation and media scrutiny among them) that corporations are becoming more timid and analyzes the consequences this could have on the future of innovation and technological development in the business future.
Managing Operational Risk: 20 Firmwide Best Practice Strategies
For today’s financial institutions, Managing Operational Risk has the essential business tools to design optimal risk management programs and put your company well ahead of the curve in the face of anticipated new regulatory standards and capital requirements. This definitive book by an international expert covers every aspect of managing operational risk, including operational risk definitions, data collection, risk assessment, modeling, insurance, and risk finance, as well as a comprehensive introduction to information technology.
Risk Management Solutions for Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 IT Compliance
If your company does business on the Internet, your risks are growing exponentially. Worms, viruses, cracker attacks, mechanical failures, and natural disasters create a climate that compromises performance as well as security. Traditional solutions are too limited to address these risks. You need a strategy designed for today, and this book will help you build one.
