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Practical Enterprise Risk Management : A Business Process Approach

ISBN: 9780470559857 | 0470559853

Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley
Pub. Date: 10/1/2010

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Summary Table of Contents Author Biography

Learn the ultimate common sense approach to ERM implementationEmphasizing an enterprise risk management approach using actual business data to estimate the probability and impact of key risks in an organization, Practical Enterprise Risk Management: A Business Process Approach boils ERM down to the essential nuts and bolts, making it accessible to everyone in your organization, from line managers to high-level executives.Take the risk! Open the book and find out:Why facts and common sense are a risk management program's best friendsWhat risk as... MOREsessment and management are really all aboutHow to create pictures of your business to ensure that effective risk management is put in placeHow NOT to run ITWhat you don't know about outsourcing could wreck your organizationWho really owns the risk management process-the answer will surprise youTired of assessing risk with your best guesses? It's time to calculate probability and impact using cold hard facts and data.Practical Enterprise Risk Management shows you how, with hands-on guidance based on practical methodologies that will enable your organization to create a highly effective governance and oversight tool that will yield genuine business value.

The most practical and sensible way to implement ERM-while avoiding all of the classic mistakesEmphasizing an enterprise risk management approach that utilizes actual business data to estimate the probability and impact of key risks in an organization, Practical Enterprise Risk Management: A Business Process Approach boils this topic down to make it accessible to both line managers and high level executives alike. The key lessons involve basing risk estimates and prevention techniques on known quantities rather than subjective estimates, which many popular ERM methodologies consist of. Shows readers how to look at real results and actual business processes to get to the root cause of key risks Explains how to manage risks based on an understanding of the problem rather than best guess estimates Emphasizes a focus on potential outcomes from existing processes, as well as a look at actual outcomes over timeThroughout, practical examples are included from various healthcare, manufacturing, and retail industries that demonstrate key concepts, implementation guidance to get started, as well as tables of risk indicators and metrics, physical structure diagrams, and graphs.

The book emphasizes an enterprise risk management approach that utilizes actual business data to estimate the probability and impact of key risks in an organization. While the approach is anlytical, the author has boiled it down to make it accessible to line managers and high level executives alike.

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Corporate Governance: A Gut Check	p. 1
What ERM Is and What It Is Not	p. 23
Understanding What the Business Is	p. 38
Defining What True Business Risk Is	p. 59
Objectively Defining Risk	p. 80
Building a Fluid/Dynamic Risk Model	p. 92
Top-Down Risk Assessment: Evolving the Fluid ERM Environment-A St... MOREep-by-Step Approach	p. 122
The Future Evolution of the Model	p. 203
Related Topics and Special Risk Situations	p. 221
Maximizing Impact-Minimizing Exposure	p. 260
About the Author	p. 269
Index	p. 271
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Gregory H. Duckert, CPA, CISA, CIA, CRISC, is?the CEO and Founder of Virtual Governance Institute, an organization specializing in consultation for major corporations regarding progressive audit/consulting methodologies, data centric enterprise risk assessment models, including financial, operational, regulatory and IT, and continuous audit/consulting platforms. He has developed extensive risk assessment metric inventories for evaluating risks in all organizational areas including operations, IT application systems, IT operations, regulatory and financial areas,?and is currently in the process of creating a Data Centric Risk Assessment and Management Model for a major corporation. He is also a Senior Consultant for MIS Training Institute and a lead instructor in their audit practice area on an independent contractor basis. He is conducting seminars or speaking at MIS events approximately 130 days a year.

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