.... This masterclass aims to identify three books that show how risk management produces new opportunities for advantage. Design/methodology/approach – The masterclass discusses the approaches to risk management offered in The Risk-Driven Business Model by technology and innovation experts, Karan Girotra...

... method with which to assess corporate strategic initiatives (such as mergers and acquisitions, share buy-backs, risk management, etc.). Originality/value – This analysis provides senior executives with a guide to the assessment tools used by the most successful value investors and an explanation...

... Aeroplanes Innovation risk Outsourcing risk Tiered outsourcing Toyota outsourcing model Offshoring risks Web‐based‐communications risks Labour‐relations risks Project‐management‐skills risk Risk management Several decades ago when Boeing began designing the revolutionary 787 Dreamliner...

...; respond; monitor; accept. Originality/value The paper presents at a five‐level approach where improved risk management can be tackled at five levels of increasing sophistication: level 1 – efficient firefighting; level 2 – insurance; level 3 – core risk management; level 4 – return‐risk...

... on testing the major assumptions for that stage. Stage‐gate process Innovation commercialization Budgeting and planning methodologies Gate reviews Assumption‐driven process Risk Risk assessment Risk management Project evaluation The stage‐gate process lives on in many companies despite...

... Strategic‐issue‐management system Management capabilities Corporate governance strategic capability management Enterprise risk Risk management As environmental turbulence increases, strategic issues emerge more frequently that challenge the way an organization formulates and implements its...

... of damaging one's reputation, presents a threat to organizations in many ways. Little is known, however, about the connections between reputation risk management and social media as a mediated business environment. Following the latest conceptualizations of strategic reputation management and social media...

... Group Publishing Limited 2010 Corporate strategy Strategic planning Risk management Leadership Decision making The global financial crisis continues to be a severe shock to most enterprises. The initial economic downturn, the worst since the Great Depression, has affected almost all...

... as conditions change. Executives could then plan for contingencies and execute them. Karen Butner can be contacted at kbutner@us.ibm.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Supply chain management Top management Distribution management Inventory management Risk management Modelling...

... Innovation Risk management One of the most notable features of the early years of the twenty first century has been the renewal of interest in innovation and new business venturing as the primary drivers of top‐line growth. Given the severity of the current downturn, many companies may well be tempted...

... to enterprise‐wide risk. Findings The paper finds that Tenneco management's blind spot was its failure to consider the interaction of its decisions and implicit assumptions over time. Practical implications Six principles of enterprise‐risk management are distilled from the Tenneco...

... too conservative. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Boards of Directors Management strategy Risk management The corporate governance trailblazer, Sir Adrian Cadbury, provided a succinct description of the forces in play at the top levels of an enterprise: “The basic...

... or avoid it. What if more began to actively to manage strategic risk? © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Strategic leadership Risk management Emergent strategy Uncertainty management Organizational design Resource management Strategic management It is startling to realize...

... uncertainty, with the management tools for creating greater strategic flexibility. Risk management Uncertainty management Strategic management Since the start of the modern era of management, we have recognized the role of the paradoxical in the leadership of high performance organizations. Alfred...

... in share, slowly decline, and eventually be phased out. Innovation Business formation Risk management Cash management Return on investment For almost every company, the greatest challenge of innovation is not a lack of ideas but, rather, successfully managing innovation so that it delivers...

... image Shareholders Risk management Reputation is the strongest determinant of any corporation's sustainability. Stock price can always come back. Business strategies can always be changed. But when an organization's reputation is gravely injured, its recovery is difficult, long‐term...

... contributors as well as managers, with the same pay scales. S&L: How does Xilinx make sure that innovations are being generated and widely circulated, so that ideas not wanted in one part of the organization might find a home and make an impact elsewhere? Innovation Culture Risk management...

...Adrian Slywotzky This article urges executives to expand their view of risk. Instead of just defending against bad risk events, leading companies define and anticipate the upside risks that, when well managed, can deliver the maximum rewards. The discipline of strategic risk management allows firms...

... at the HP plant in Dublin, July 2nd, 2004. Outsourcing Innovation Corporate strategy Risk management Acharacteristic of corporate strategy in developed countries in the last 20 years has been an increasing interest in outsourcing as a potential source of competitiveness and value creation...

... risk factors and risk mitigation plans (including timing of each). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Risk management Acquisitions and mergers Due diligence “The art of doing due diligence is being lost. Buyers aren’t analyzing the operations and books of prospective...