Tired of complex, convoluted books on risk management? Chaos to Clarity is a practical guide that distills risk management down to the essential few elements needed to achieve risk management success. This book is not an academic discussion of risk theory. This book is a practical guide that presents fundamental risk management concepts, tools, and techniques that, if practiced, lead to effective risk management. Chaos to Clarity is designed to appeal to people of all skill levels from novice risk practitioner to risk management experts
Joseph W. Mayo is an Information Technology professional with over 20 years of experience. Mr. Mayo is a PMI certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Risk Management Professional (RMP), and a Certified Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) professional. Mr. Mayo has worked for a variety of professional services companies including Computer Sciences Corporation, Keane Incorporated, ManTech International, and NTT DATA. He is a frequent speaker and conference presenter on topics that include risk management, project management, and quality assurance. Career highlights include the following:
- Program Manager for project #7 of the top 100 IT Projects of 2006 by InfoWorld.
- Developed PMO procedures, the collaboration workspace, and Executive level dashboards for a PMO to divest a large International conglomerate ($18B 2005 revenue). The PMO was responsible for cloning 112 Corporate Applications for four separate operating companies and renegotiating 1,300 telecommunications, IT service and license contracts without impacting the day to day operations of any one of the operating companies.
- Developed a risk management maturity roadmap for ta U.S. Government Agency and was instrumental in the development and implementation of the Enterprise risk policy.