Many people in organizations resent internal control and risk management; these two processes representing unwelcome tasks to be completed for the benefit of auditors and regulators. Over the last few years this perception has been heightened by the disastrous implementation of section 404 of...

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Risk Management and SMEs: an Overview and Proposed Research Agenda -- Part 1. Risk Management, Governance and Stakeholder Value Creation -- 1. Role of the Governance System in Strategic Risk...

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Innovation Project Management in Theory -- 1.1. Defining the word "innovation" -- 1.1.1. A polysemous word -- 1.1.2. The different types of innovation -- 1.1.3. The different perceptions of newness --...

A well-monitored supply chain is any business' key to productivity and profit. But each link in that chain is its own entity, subject to its own ups, downs, and business realities. This book identifies the different phases of business continuity program development and maintenance

Key readings in risk management from CFA Institute, the preeminent organization representing financial analysts Risk management may have been the single most important topic in finance over the past two decades. To appreciate its complexity, one must understand the art as well as the science...

Intro -- PREFACE -- What is Cloud Computing? -- Shared service model -- Computing as a commodity service -- Simplicity versus complexity -- Data center efficiency -- The way ahead -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Virtualization -- Time slice -- Hypervisor --...

Everyday we face decisions that carry an element of risk and uncertainty. The ability to analyze, predict, and prepare for the level of risk entailed by these decisions is, therefore, one of the most constant and vital skills needed for analysts, scientists and managers. Risk analysis can be...

Covers credit risk and credit derivatives. This book offers several points of view on credit risk when looked at from the perspective of Econometrics and Financial Mathematics. It addresses the challenge of modeling defaults and their correlations, and results on copula, reduced form and...

The U.S. Navy wants to provide its shipbuilders with appropriate incentive to produce militarily effective vessels at minimum cost to the Navy. It can induce a shipbuilder to agree to any contractual arrangement by offering the shipbuilder a high enough price. But it is likely to be preferable,...

Intro -- Contents -- Prologue: The Era of Knowledge Selection -- 1) The Current Situation of Employment and Work-Sharing in Japan -- 2) The Dawn of a New Era -- The development of digital and network technology -- Shortened lifespan of knowledge -- About the Authors -- Akira Ishikawa -- Isamu...