Leading from Under the Sword of Damocles : A Business Leader's Practical Guide to Using Predictive Emulation to Manage Risk and Maintain Profitability - Abu el Ata, Nabil; Drucbert, Annie; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer Vieweg, 2017)
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.
Keywords: Computers; Information technology; Business-Data processing; Risk management; Economic theory; Leadership; Information Systems and Communication Service; IT in Business; Risk Management; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods; Business Strategy/Leadership.