Operational risk with Excel and VBA

applied statistical methods for risk management

Dr. Nigel Da Costa Lewis has produced the most exciting volume ever on operational risk modeling. It is a must for students, practitioners, risk managers, and senior executives. . . I feel this work is the first step in revolutionizing the discipline. Other books in this field ...

Computer simulation in management

The fourth edition of this book reflects its continued popularity and standing in the field. It provides a clear guide to the role of modelling and the computer simulation methods used in management science. Readers will find an in-depth coverage of the modelling, computing and ...

Performance management

finding the missing pieces (to close the intelligence gap)

" We are witnessing a convergence among advanced management concepts and practices. Performance management is a means to pull it all together, to understand the strengths and limitations of each management practice and leverage it for competitive advantage. Cokins# book walks us through all this in ...

Foundations of risk analysis

a knowledge and decision-oriented perspective

Everyday we face decisions that carry an element of risk and uncertainty. The ability to analyse, communicate and control the level of risk entailed by these decisions remains one of the most pressing challenges to the analyst, scientist and manager. This book presents the foundational ...

Quantiative methods for business

the a-z of QM

Contents Setting off; Getting linear models straight; Dealing with curves without going round the bend; Filling up - fuelling quantitative analysis; Good visibility - pictorial presentation of data; General directions - summarising data; Two-way traffic - summarising and representing relationships between two variables; Counting the cost - summarising money variables ...

Metodología para la toma de decisiones

Esta obra de Miguel Córdoba Bueno se inscribe dentro de la literatura hoy día disponible con el animo de ofrecer al publico, en general, y a los universitarios en particular que deben iniciarse en el estudio de la metodología de la decisión, una visión de ...

Metadata for information management and retrieval

for information management and retrieval

What is metadata and what do I need to know about it? These are two key questions for the information professional operating in the digital age as more and more information resources are available in electronic format. This is a thought-provoking introduction to metadata written ...

Data mining

next generation challenges and future directions

Data mining, or knowledge discovery, has become an indispensable technology for businesses and researchers in many fields. Drawing on work in such areas as statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, databases, and high performance computing, data mining extracts useful information from the large data sets now ...

W. E. Deming

critical evaluation in business and management

W. Edwards Deming's name is synonymous with Total Quality Management. His ideas were at first enthusiastically adopted by Japanese businesses. Deming is recognized as putting Japan on the road to leadership in international business and industry and was awarded the Second Order of the ...

Risk

how to make decisions in an uncertain world

Every business decision takes us into a future of opportunity and danger. To move forward with confidence, we need to get to grips with risk and uncertainty. Risk is a concise overview of the principles of risk management and decision making. It will help you ...

La toma de decisiones en la práctica

Ante la enorme dificultad que para el estudiante tienen las materias de carácter cuantitativo y, en especial, las relacionadas con la Matemática Financiera y la Teoría Decisional,ofrecemos al estudiante, y pensando exclusivamente en él,esta obra totalmente práctica de manera que,a través de ...

Herramientas para la toma de decisiones con Microsoft Excel

herramientas informáticas para la empresa

Etapas del proceso decisiorio. Cubo de decisión. Decsiones bajo incertidumbre. Árbol de decisión. Maximización- Minimización

Decision analysis for management judgment

In an increasingly complex world, decision analysis plays a key role in helping managers gain a greater understanding of the situations they face. This updated classic offers unrivalled coverage of the problems associated with unaided managerial decision making and the methods designed to overcome them ...

Performance drivers

a practical guide to using the balanced scorecard

A Practical Guide to Using the Balanced Scorecard performance drivers Nils-Goran Olve, Jan Roy and Magnus Wetter Since the groundbreaking work of Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, the concept of the Balanced Scorecard has achieved increasing popularity in the business world. Previously, many ...

Advances in understanding strategic behaviour

Game Theory, experiments and bounded rationality: essays in honour of Werner Güth

This volume contains sixteen original articles documenting recent progress in understanding strategic behaviour. In their variety they reflect an entire spectrum of coexisting approaches: from orthodox game theory via behavioral game theory, bounded rationality and economic psychology to experimental economics. There are plenty of new ...

En la espiral de la innovación

modelo Benchmarking y experiencias de empresas innovadoras en España (Inditex, Ingenio, Irizar, MRW, e-Human@, Aldebaran Innovation, Pharma- Mar, Tecasa)

EN LA ESPIRAL DE LA INNOVACIÓN es un libro que plasma en un modelo de marketing, el mix de las empresas innovadoras más significativas del panorama español actual. El modelo utiliza siete variables: Cliente, Calidad, Comunicación, Proyecto, Tecnología, Estilo de Dirección y Conocimiento.. Y en ...

Enfoques económicos para el análisis de las organizaciones

Este libro presenta una introducción a los enfoques económicos para el análisis de las organizaciones más importantes en la actualidad. Los autores hacen un importante esfuerzo para sintetizar, sistematizar y dar coherencia a las distintas teorías y enfoques dentro de la economía de las organizaciones ...

Architectures of knowledge

firms, capabilities, and communities

Architectures of Knowledge seeks to demonstrate that a recognition of the importance of the role of knowledge in ecnomics may lead to a new conception of the firm and public policy. To construct an alternative theorisation of knowledge formation and knowledge governance in firms, the ...

The modern firm

organizational design performance and growth

The Modern Firm develops powerful conceptual frameworks for analyzing the interrelations between organizational design features, competitive strategy and the business environment. Written in a non-technical language, the book is nevertheless based on rigorous modeling and draws on numerous examples from the eighteenth century fur trading ...

Managing change/changing managers

The topic of change management presents students with many challenges. One of the most difficult is making sense of the plethora of guru and hero-manager literature. Managing Change/Changing Managers is an innovative textbook that encourages readers to rigorously question popular management theory, presenting a ...