14 September 2007

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Septembers Feature in the Marketplace

Modern Corporate Risk Management: A Blueprint for Positive Change and Effectiveness
By Glenn R. Koller

This title is a valuable reference for anyone who has responsibility to manage enterprise or project management risk.

Modern Corporate Risk Management offers forward-thinking, practical solutions to the technical, organizational, cultural and political problems related to corporate portfolio risk management.  

Written in an easy-to-understand format by an expert who has worked in a broad spectrum of businesses and industries, this title offers risk-related advice for people in services, logistics, engineering, sales, marketing, legal, finance, research, commercial, environmental, construction, information technology and other corporate departments.
 
The author provides examples and instructions to use risk-based metrics, such as the expected value of success (EVS) and the expected value for the portfolio (EVP). He also provides techniques for using probabilistic and stochastic methods to estimate project values and budgets, and to make optimal financial decisions at all corporate levels.