Risk Management.
This first book was commissioned by the Chartered Insurance Institute in London and is the core text for their examination course 655:Risk Management.
Insurance is a valuable resource used primarily to manage unexpected financial damage but increasingly the kind of exposure that can do most damage to today’s mega-corporations is not financial. It is the non-financial risks that are more likely to wreak the most damage; especially those infrequent but potentially catastrophic incidents that damage brands, trust, intellectual assets, and operability. Insurers find these non-financial, very infrequent but potentially catastrophic exposures the most challenging to protect.
The subject book therefore introduces the Institute’s international insurance students into the wider world of operational risk management; within which business insurance programmes form a part of the modern-day risk manager’s toolbox. It is updated for the new student intake each year.
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A Risk Management Approach to Business Continuity
This book was written with Julia Graham and sets out to break down some of the historical silos and constraints of business continuity management. The book illustrates the massive importance of bringing together the skills, the agendas and the resources of all managers who have a responsibility for risk and resiliance of any organisation or division.
A Risk Analysis or a Business Impact Analysis needs to address a whole host of exposures well beyond the internal infrastructure of the organisation. Single risk exposures and survival depenencies to operability, intellectual assets, brands, and legality test the traditional business community principles and horizons. These exposures demand that business continuity practioners take their rightful place at the very heart of the board's strategic thinking.
This explores these concepts and looks forward to envisage the business continuity manager of the future; the skills needed, how and where business continuity should be placed within the organisation, and how best it can work with other risk disciplines across the whole organisation.
The book is uesd by the Institute of Risk Management as the required text for the specialist Fellowship examinations in the subject of business continuity. It is used also by a number of universities in different countries as a core business management examination text.
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Managing Risk and Resiliance in the Supply Chain
The modern business model, with its just-in-time, outsourced, supply chain, compression of margins, direct communication via the web simultaneously to millions of customers, crosses international boundaries with ease. It is however much more brittle and has never been more susceptible to one point of catastrophic failure. Furthermore, much of its workforce is now employed by a third party to deliver both intellect and activity, and only and precisely as agreed in a contract that had been negotiated at a time when the risk incident may not have been envisaged.
These exposures bring entirely new challenges to risk managers, their boards and their various stakeholders. It takes risk management directly into the strategic issues around designing these models and then actively managing those relationships and way that designs out failure. The book, to be published by the BSI in spring 2008 addresses, in a practical and hands-on way, these strategic and operational challenges.
The review published in the November 2008 edition of Risk UK's magazine stated 'an essential read for the modern risk manager who respects the need to manage the risks that any contract can pose. ...should make it a well thumbed volume on your desk'. For full review see www.risk-uk.com
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Articles
There are a large number of articles published internationally in many magazines, books and websites on a wide range of risk and management related issues.