Global Hot Spots: How Project and Enterprise Risk Management Practices Drive Business Results Around the World (Simmer System)

Yes, but we're different".How many times have you heard that excuse?Global Hot Spots blows the covers off that excuse.This isn't just for risk management professionals. It's about the business implications of risk management: the successes you can achieve when you use it, and some of the pitfalls that organizations have experienced when risks are ignored or mismanaged.Do your fellow managers insist that tHey're different? These 9 authors are professionals working in seven countries on four continents and speaking four different primary languages. That's different! Yet their experiences have been remarkably similar.Who are they, and what are they saying? In alphabetical order:

• Douglas Brown, Editor, program management author and consultant, USA: what the enterprise needs to do to foster an environment where risk management can thrive
• Dade Brown, programme manager for major European telecoms, UK: (1) Managing risk in the Scaled Agile framework, and (2) managing the entry of Millenials to the workforce
• Franco and Cesar Oboni, officers of an international risk consultancy,Canada: why the red-yellow-green risk matrix is a flawed tool
• Susan Parente, risk management office consultant, USA: (1) risk managment within the Scrum approach to Agile, and (2) managing risk at te enterprise level
Carl Pritchard, speaker and trainer on project and risk management, USA: 3 case studies on risk management implementations for 3 different reasons
• Alexei Sidorenko, international consultant and founder, Risk Academy, Russia: (1) managing risk using ISO31000, and (2) managing risk for outcomes, not compliance
• Elise Stevens, project and risk management consultant, and owner of "Fix my Project Chaos" blog, Australia: managing organizational change, dealing with sponsors, and the implications of having women in the project manamgnet role
• Ivan Dutra Villarroel, risk and process consultant, Brazil: 3 case studies of risk analysis creating a direct impact on the company's bottom line
• John A. Williams: owner, Pragmatition consultancy, Netherlands: (1) using a Quality framework to manage risk, and (2) organizational politics nd culture change

This book is your answer to what the business value of risk management is. It doesn't provide elaborate methodologies. It describes real business situations and how using risk management processes and tools contributed to a positive outcome - or, in many cases, how using them would have avoided a significant failure.Risk managemetn shouldn't be about filling in spreadsheet templates. We all know that most projects fail because of actions or inaction of the participants, and this book is one of the few that take that challenge head on. Several chapters address the risks that are caused by ineffective methods of managing the people and provide practical tips for managing in the modern workforce. This book is essential for anyone trying to explain to other managers why a little insurance in the form of risk management will prove to be a very cost-effective investment, and shows vivid examples of failures that could have been easily avoided but happened anyway.