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Risk Assessment and Decision Making in Business and Industry: A Practical Guide presents an accessible treatment of the procedures and technologies involved in designing and building risk-assessment processes and models.
Areas examined include:
· brokerage-house portfolio management
· legal decision making
· construction
· oil/gas exploration
· environmental assessments
· engineering
· marketing
· government
· manufacturing
The entire volume is presented as a narrative, keeping statistical jargon to a minimum and explaining all concepts, techniques, and processes in a straightforward manner.
The author emphasizes that the technical aspects of a risk-assessment and decision-making effort are secondary to the cultural, organizational, and interpersonal facets of establishing a framework.
"Practical" is the operative term throughout the text. Risk Assessment and Decision Making in Business and Industry: A Practical Guide enables readers who are not risk experts to effect an easy execution of the risk model building effort.
