Surviving and thriving in uncertainty [[electronic resource] ] : creating the risk intelligent enterprise / / Frederick Funston, Stephen Wagner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910139191503321
• Autore: Funston Frederick
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, c2010
• ISBN: 0-470-61748-9; 1-119-20563-8; 1-282-69058-2; 9786612690587; 0-470-61747-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (369 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): WagnerStephen
• Disciplina: 658.15/5
• Soggetti: Risk management; Uncertainty
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Surviving and Thriving in Uncertainty: Creating the Risk Intelligent Enterprise; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Conventional Risk Management; A Risk Intelligent Approach; The Approach of This Book; The Structure of This Book; Part I: When Risks Become Brutal Realities; Chapter 1: To Survive and Thrive: A Matter of Judgment; Chapter 2: Conventional Risk Management Has Failed; Chapter 3: An Unconventional Approach to Risk Management; Part II: Ten Essential Risk Intelligence Skills; Chapter 4: Check Your Assumptions at the Door; Chapter 5: Maintain Constant Vigilance; Chapter 6: Factor in Velocity and Momentum Chapter 7: Manage the Key Connections; Chapter 8: Anticipate Causes of Failure; Chapter 9: Verify Sources and Corroborate Information; Chapter 10: Maintain a Margin of Safety; Chapter 11: Set Your Enterprise Time Horizons; Chapter 12: Take Enough of the Right Risks; Chapter 13: Sustain Operational Discipline; Part III: Creating the Risk Intelligent Enterprise; Chapter 14: Risk Intelligence Is Free; Chapter 15: Risk Intelligent Governance; Chapter 16: Risk Intelligent Enterprise Management; Chapter 17: The Way Forward: Creating the Risk Intelligent Enterprise ; Notes; About the Authors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A new book to help senior executives and boards get smart about risk management The ability of businesses to survive and thrive often requires unconventional thinking and calculated risk taking. The key is to make the right decisions-even under the most risky, uncertain, and turbulent conditions. In the new book, Surviving and Thriving in Uncertainty: Creating the Risk Intelligent Enterprise, authors Rick Funston and Steve Wagner suggest that effective risk taking is needed in order to innovate, stay competitive, and drive value creation. Based on their combined decades of experience as