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Risk Analysis: the identification of risks to which an organization is exposed and the assessment of the potential impact of those risks on the organization. The goal...; Risk Analysis definition on BNET »

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SCOR Calls on CGI France to Develop Sar@, a Reference Tool for the Pricing of Substandard Risk Personal Insurance: SCOR, France's largest reinsurance company, wanted to develop a secure policy rating module and a complete documentary database on 3,500 illnesses, 1,500 professions, 600 sports activities, approximately 20 means of transport and 180 countries for the political risks. It also wanted to be able to integrate other rating manuals autonomously...; Tags: Pricing, Scripting languages, Marketing research, Insurance, Strategy, CGI Group Inc., CGI, pricing strategy, risk analysis, reinsurance, life insurance, Extranet, tool, database; Case studies
Scanning Cross-Border Payments Against Watch Lists: Innovative Fraud-Detection System Insulates Company From Risk and Fraud: When Fin-Force, a leading third-party payment processor, set out to protect its assets from risk and promote customer service, it looked to EDS to help implement a best-in-class risk analysis solution. EDS not only optimized the scanning solution and completed testing within the aggressive timeframe, it also executed several production...; Tags: Operational accounting, Electronic Data Systems Corp., payment, risk analysis, customer service, asset; Case studies
Keeping On Top of Project Management: A project can be an awkward beast to manage. Because the purpose of a project is to bring about change, the context is often unsettled and uncertain. As a result, unexpected issues tend to crop up—changes occur and mistakes are made. An effective project manager must accept that the unexpected...; Tags: Team management, Strategy, SECURITY, Tools & Techniques, BNET Editorial, risk analysis, project manager, team, risk, change request, risk assessment, project management; Articles 2007-10-08
Fuzzy Based Decision Support System For e-Tourism Investment risk analysis: This paper presents a Fuzzy based Decision Support System (DSS) for E-tourism investment risk analysis. In general term, E-tourism is the use of Information And Communication Technology (ICT) in tourism which may allow operating tourism in least variable cost, least time and increasing work efficiency. It is worth noting that...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Databases, decision support system, Information and Communication Technology, investment, information technology; White papers 2006-10-29
Benchmarking risk analysis Practice In The International Water Sector: Risk analysis in the water utility sector is fast becoming explicit. This paper describes application of a capability model to benchmark the risk analysis maturity of a sub-sample of eight water utilities from the USA, the UK and Australia. Our analysis codifies risk analysis practice and offers practical guidance as...; Tags: Benchmarking, Risk Analysis, Strategy, Management; White papers 2006-09-12

Risk Assessment of Drilling and Completion Operations in Petroleum Wells Using a Monte Carlo and a Neural Network Approach: Risk analysis and management of petroleum exploration ventures is growing worldwide and many international petroleum companies have improved their exploration performance by using principles of risk analysis in combination with new technologies This paper intends to show how two different methodologies, a Monte Carlo simulation method and a connectionist approach...; Tags: Strategy, risk analysis, petroleum, neural network, risk assessment, performance; White papers 2005-11-08
Whether to Strengthen?: risk analysis for Strengthening Decision-Making: Based on recent practical experiences, this paper suggests that a relatively simple risk analysis combined with an equally straightforward structural failure analysis can be used to identify whether such structures are unsafe and constitute a risk to life; such an analysis can also identify both priorities for strengthening among a...; Tags: Strategy, risk analysis, decision-making, analysis; White papers 2005-03-17
Portfolio Credit risk analysis Involving CDO Tranches: Credit risk analysis for portfolios containing CDO tranches is a challenging task for risk managers. The paper proposes here a basis function approach for CDO tranche valuation and portfolio risk analysis at horizon, based on a multi-step Monte Carlo simulation model. The idea is to approximate the expected value of...; Tags: Strategy, Financial accounting, risk analysis, analysis, financial instrument, Risk Manager, valuation, financial; White papers 2004-11-11
Analyzing Losses From Hazard Exposure: A Conservative Probabilistic Estimate Using Supply Chain Risk Simulation: This paper presents a supply chain risk analysis that is based on a Monte Carlo simulation of a Generalized Semi-Markov Process (G.S.M.P.) model. Specifically, the authors' seek to estimate the probability distribution of supply chain losses caused by disruptions. This distribution is computed conditional on conservative hypotheses which are the...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), Stanford University, supply chain, analysis; White papers 2004-11-11
NYSE & NASDAQ Corporate Governance Standards Stress Audit Committee Oversight of risk analysis and Risk Management: By specifically requiring audit committees to review their company's risk assessment and risk management policies, the NYSE & NASDAQ regulations highlight the importance of the corporate risk management function and the need for companies to assess their risks and employ appropriate risk management and transfer techniques. In light of these...; Tags: Financial Planning, Financial services, SECURITY, risk management, New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., risk analysis, risk assessment, risk, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, technique, strategy; White papers 2004-06-14
Improving Underwriting Processes and Profitability With Leakage and risk analysis: Insurance companies are facing a difficult financial landscape. Declining investment returns, rising claims and growing product commoditization all are contributing to reserve deficiencies and lower underwriting profitability, despite premium growth in some lines of business. Improved underwriting processes can reduce the substantial leakage that occurs at both the policy and...; Tags: BearingPoint Inc., risk analysis, line of business, insurance, financial; White papers 2004-05-24
Take A Risk (Part 2): Risks are also hardly static entities and constantly mutate to changing project conditions. Risk monitoring and control will help ensure that you are able to keep up these changes by constantly monitoring risks to discover changes in the impact of identified risks. The results of your risk monitoring and control...; Tags: Strategy, risk analysis, monitoring, risk management, database; White papers 2004-05-19
risk analysis and Management For Marine Systems: Sources of risk to marine systems include equipment failure, external events, human error, and institutional error. Risk studies may be classified according to whether they focus primarily on assessment, management, or communication; these aspects of risk studies are described to prepare users and readers of this paper for performing risk-based...; Tags: Quality, University of Maryland, risk analysis, standards, analysis; White papers 2004-03-27
Quantitative risk analysis for Project Management: A Critical Review: This paper is the final report of the RAND Internal Research and Development (IR&D) project "Risk Management and Risk Analysis for Complex Projects: Developing a Research Agenda." The aim of the project was to survey how quantitative risk management and risk analysis methods were applied to the planning and execution...; Tags: Strategy, RAND Corp., risk analysis, Ingersoll-Rand, risk management, project management, R&D, survey; White papers 2004-02-01
risk analysis and Capital Adequacy of Hedge Funds: The article examines the risk characteristics and capital adequacy of hedge funds using Value-at-Risk (based on Extreme Value Theory) as the criterion for measuring risk and estimating capital requirements. Using extensive data on nearly fifteen hundred live and dead hedge funds, its found that only 3.7% live and 11.9% dead...; Tags: Investment, Financial services, hedge fund, risk analysis, equity, theory; White papers 2003-10-01
Modeling Techniques for a risk analysis Methodology for Software Systems: The purpose of this white paper document is to outline possible techniques to use in a possible analysis methodology and to briefly describe how these techniques are used. This document suggests that a descriptive visual model be created using many of Unified Modeling Language's (UML) numerous artifacts. UML's widespread acceptance...; Tags: Programming languages, Carnegie-Mellon University, UML, risk analysis, technique, modeling, analysis; White papers 2003-07-10
Playing With Fire: From the executive summary: 'The hardest part of risk, especially for CIOs, is that it does not provide concrete answers. Risk analysis will not tell which project to do. But, it will indicate, which ones fall into a certain level of risk and payoff.' Likewise, portfolio management also helps in...; Tags: Strategy, International Data Group, portfolio management, risk analysis; White papers 2003-07-01
Sunk Cost and Free Riding Justifications - A risk analysis Approach: This paper, through risk analysis methodology, addresses two popular arguments against extending the scope of exception to copyright in digital environment: the sunk cost argument and the free riding argument. It concludes that while both arguments are legitimate, they were built upon many doubtful assumptioscial vrants). Even when free riding...; Tags: Strategy, risk analysis, music, environment; White papers 2003-06-03
Schedule risk analysis Simplified: The critical path method (CPM) of scheduling a project is a key tool for project management. A schedule "network" represents the project strategy. CPM computes the shortest project completion duration and or completion date from the longest path through the network. Three steps to a successful schedule risk analysis are...; Tags: risk analysis, project management, analysis, strategy, network, tool; White papers 2003-01-01
risk analysis: From the executive summary: ‘Most organizations have faced many challenges in dealing with safety, health, and environmental risks. The recent terrorist activities have only made the matters worse for organizations. Experts suggest that risk analysis requires scientists and engineers to undertake assessments to characterize the nature and uncertainties surrounding a...; Tags: Knowledge@Wharton, risk analysis, risk, incentive, health care, strategy; White papers 2003-01-01