Leading from Under the Sword of Damocles

Presents advanced predictive and prescriptive analytics principles to control riskHelps business leaders and risk management practitioners to gain a wider understanding of risksShows which actions are necessary to ensure the business is optimally positioned to meet its stated long-term goals

Autorentext
Dr. Nabil Abu el Ata is the co-founder of URM Group, and has invested over 20 years inmaturing the science of risk management and the practical application of technologies topredictively expose and prescriptively treat operational risks caused by dynamic complexity.With over 15 patents and decades of experience providing consultative services to some of the world's largest and most complex organizations, he offers a breadth of analytical skills, riskmanagement and business intelligence expertise, as well as IT and business process management knowledge.
Annie Drucbert is a co-founder of URM Group and a recognized authority in the predictive and prescriptive analysis of economic, financial and enterprise systems. Mrs. Drucbert's specialties include modeling, emulation and performance management of complex database and corporate systems. Mrs. Drucbert holds 3 US patents and has delivered strategic, tactical and operational services using X-Act OBC Platform for several global clients.

Inhalt
Introduction.- The Looming Danger: Mismanaging Risk.- Dynamic Complexity: The Cancer of Business.- The Loose Cubic Dilemma.- Meeting Business Targets and Constraints.- the Basics of Universal Risk Managment.- the Challenge: Esacaping the Tunnel Vision, Identifying the Best Path and Evaluating the Reward.- Analytical vs. Numerical Solutions.- Using X-act OBC Platform for Risk Management.- Predictive and Prescriptive Risk Management.- The Predictive Estimation of Dynamic Complexity.- Identifying the Cure for Dynamic Complexity: Improve, Transfor or Disrupt?.- X-Act OBC Platform Metrics Guide the Disruption Decision.- The Prescriptive Analysis: The Three + One Rule.- Getting Started with Universal Risk Management.- X-Act OBC Platform Walk Through.- Using X-Act OBC Platform for Predictive Diagnosis and Prescriptive Treatment of Risk.- Case #1: Managing Corporate Risk, Global Payment Card Processing Company.- Case # 2: Managing Market Erosion Risk, Postal Services.- Case #3: Managing Operational Risk, Global Supply Chain.- Case #4: Managing Risk of Cost Escalation and Service Quality Degradation, National Healthcare Services.- Case #5: Managing Risk of Corporate Integration, Global Financial Institution.- Making a Commitment to Maturing Risk Management.- Index.