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With a clear focus on how business objectives determine project value, this book explains how to use an "investment-based" perspective to integrate finance, risk management and strategic planning. You'll develop workflows that overcome constraints of time, cost and scheduling as you benefit from new tools that relate processes directly to business goals: the project balance sheet and the time-centric earned value system. In addition, a new goal decomposition...
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Is your business playing it safe-or taking the right risks?
If you read nothing else on managing risk, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help your company make smart decisions and thrive, even when the future is unclear.
This book will inspire you to:
• Avoid the most common errors in risk management
• Understand the three distinct categories of...
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Disruption is everywhere: it presents both great opportunities and significant threats.
Do you know how to shape your strategy to respond?
What if you had a game plan to navigate disruption?
The Disruption Game Plan presents a tried and tested framework to help senior leaders think differently about disruptive trends and emergent risks, and to act differently when making decisions; joining up thinking on innovation, risk, sustainability and strategy.
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Long-term value creation-the board's new agenda.
A big shift in public ownership has created a new set of challenges for boards. Much of the $14 trillion of assets that firms, like Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street manage is, now held in index funds, creating a huge class of permanent institutional investors, who own almost 60-percent of the Fortune 500. These investors are, stating in no, uncertain terms that simply managing for short-term shareholder...
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In this indispensable book from the industry-leading American Management Association, financial expert John Hampton offers game-changing tips for dealing with the most important areas of financial decision-making. Filled with strategies, principles, and measurement techniques, The AMA Handbook of Financial Risk Management shows readers how to categorize financial risks, reduce risks from cash flow and budget exposures, analyze operating risks, understand...
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Consultants and internal project teams often make substantial claims about the savings opportunities resulting from their projects. Most of the time, these claims do not come true. Project Profitability explains why these opportunities are not realized and offers a framework that will guarantee your teams identify projects that align with your strategy, calculate cash savings appropriately, and realize these cash savings upon implementation.
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Traditional accounting methods provide a wealth of information about a company's financial health, but they can only reveal so much. In addition to understanding "what happened" in terms of expenses and income, cost and profitability, analytics consider "why it happened" by constructing a multidimensional view of a diverse set of variables examined on a granular level.
In Actionable Profitability Analytics, Scott Wise teaches how to establish a foundation...
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To remain viable, let alone competitive, organizations must manage risks. In this book, we explore the concept of operational risk as well as the mechanisms used to diminish the impact and occurrence of risks: the organizational control system.
Since the scope and scale of operational risks are unique to each organization, our objective is to explain the theory behind why and how managers respond to the unique combination of threats that challenge...
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You don't need sophisticated statistical analysis or software to improve the probability of project success. This book offers a proactive project management process for managing project risk from project initiation through planning, execution, control and closure. In addition, you'll apply a new technique for program risk auditing that lets you explore risk in multiple related projects. You'll learn how to uncover hidden risk during the planning phase...
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Based on a popular class taught by a Harvard Business School professor.
If you're not a numbers person, then finance can be intimidating and easy to ignore. But if you want to advance in your career, you'll need to make smart financial decisions and develop the confidence to clearly communicate those decisions to others.
In How Finance Works, Mihir Desai--a professor at Harvard Business School and author of The Wisdom of Finance--guides you into...
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The must-read summary of Doug Sundheim's book: "Taking Smart Risks: How Smart Leaders Win When Stakes Are High".
This complete summary of the ideas from Doug Sundheim's book "Taking Smart Risks" shows that when you stay in your comfort zone indefinitely, you really don't feel alive. Thus to keep growing, you have to work towards achieving challenging goals which force you to stretch and grow. This summary highlights five things you need to do in...
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The must-read summary of Jim Collins' book: "How the Mighty Fall: and Why Some Companies Never Give In"
This complete summary of the ideas from "How The Mighty Fall" shows that no successful business is immune from failure, regardless of previous performance. Providing you with a clear overview of the five stages of failure, as well as with a checklist for each stage, this useful summary gives you the tools needed to identify the warning signs of...
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The must-read summary of Larry Downes' book: "The Strategy Machine: Building Your Business One Idea at a Time".
This complete summary of the ideas from Larry Downes' book "The Strategy Machine" shows that disposable computers are set to transform every industry. To be ready for this, the ultimate extension of the Information Revolution, you need to develop a "Strategy Machine" which incorporates a portfolio of strategies that you can use to harness...
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The must-read summary of Lakshman Achuthan and Anirvan Banerji's book: "Beating the Business Cycle: How to Predict from Turning Points in the Economy".
This complete summary of the ideas from Makshman Acuthan and Anirvan Banerji's book "Beating the Business Cycle" shows that many people now assume the business cycle has been mastered, and there is no need to worry about economic recessions or recoveries any more. This point-of-view, however, might...
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The must-read summary of Adrian Slywotzky and Karl Weber's book: "The Upside: The 7 Strategies for Turning Big Threats into Growth Breakthroughs".
This complete summary of the ideas from Adrian Slywotzky and Karl Weber's book "The Upside" shows that the new strategic imperative in business is to find practical ways you can harness the upside growth potential of every moment of maximum risk to your organisation. If you can use these events to generate...
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The must-read summary of Van Tharp, D. Barton and Steve Sjuggerud's book: "Safe Strategies for Financial Freedom".
This complete summary of the ideas from Van Tharp, D. Barton and Steve Sjuggerud's book "Safe Strategies for Financial Freedom" shows that it is possible to become financially free. All you have to do is begin the journey and systematically put sound investment strategies in place. In their book, the authors provide a four-step process...
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