Operational Risk and Resilience

  • 3h 56m
  • Chris Frost, David Allen, James Porter, Philip Bloodworth
  • Elsevier Science and Technology Books, Inc.
  • 2001

Well-publicized failures in risk management have appeared with shocking frequency over the past few years. Affected firms can suffer significant commercial damage or even bankruptcy as a result. Only now is there a growing realization that risk management is a key management responsibility.

This book will help turn your firm into a “risk aware” organization which will be able to avoid catastrophic loss. It will also enable senior management to make better strategic and operational decisions, thanks to an informed understanding of business hazards.

  • An insightful guide to one of the key topics of modern strategic and operational management, written by a team of expert risk management professionals.
  • Learn about the application of operational risk management to a wide range of market sectors
  • Case studies and worked examples from around the world, including North America, Western Europe, South East Asia and Latin America, that are taken from a wide cross section of different firms and markets are used to explain how to define, analyse and control operational risk.

About the Authors

Chris Frost, David Allen, James Porter and Philip Bloodworth are all Partners at PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

In this Book

  • Risk Management Overview
  • Operational Integrity
  • Operational Delivery
  • Operational Risk Issues for the Twenty-First Century
  • Further Reading