Risk Intelligence: Learning to Manage What We Don't Know

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Risk Intelligence: Learning to Manage What We Don't Know
by David Apgar
from Harvard Business School Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Not much substance
  Very disappointed in this book. First of all, if you're looking for anything that quantitatively explains risk identification or management look elsewhere. Second, I found most of what the book refers to as risk identification to be completely lacking in academic rigor. Most of his assertions about how to identify your risk intelligence or your ability to rank projects in terms of risk profiling completely subjective. Lastly, if you're working at a small company this book is not for you. In my opinion if... more info

• Needs more work
  At work, I am doing software development planning. So I need a clear understanding of Risk Intelligence. So I bought this book.
  The writer's argument is that all risk falls into two categories one is what is knowable and therefore can be learned, and the other unknowable so difficult to prepare. So what you should do is your projects as you learn!
  As I went on, reading this book. I found it full of current examples that are at best dubious to prove his point. For example the US planners'... more info

• Risky Business
  Risk management is a vital function for most rationally managed organizations. Any competent business plan or project proposal will include a section on risk mitigation. So what is risk? In essence it is anything that will hinder or prevent an organization from achieving its goals or purpose. Clearly then it is in an organization's interest to reduce the probability that a risk will occur through what is called `risk mitigation'. There are numerous methodologies to achieve this some good others more... more info

• Risk Intelligence is enthusiastically recommended for business leaders
  Written by David Apgar, a managing director of the Corporate Executive Board best-practices research organization which serves senior executives at over 2,500 institutions worldwide, Risk Intelligence: Learning To Manage What We Don't Know openly challenges the common presumption that risk management and related business judgments is a matter solely for technical specialists. Risk Intelligence teaches the reader how to distinguish learnable risks from random risks in business decisions, how to score one's... more info

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