Strategic Risk and Crisis Management

A Handbook for Modelling and Managing Complex Risks
2. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-3986-2920-2
Verlag: Kogan Page

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm

Deliver strategic resilience in a crisis with proven tools for informed leadership, stronger governance and measurable risk management. Strategic Risk and Crisis Management is an executive guide for directors, senior leaders and risk owners who need to prepare their organizations for high-impact events in an increasingly volatile operating environment. Written by risk expert David Rubens, it provides the strategic models, data-led insights and real-world examples leaders need to navigate complex threats and protect enterprise value. You'll learn how to: - Apply and strengthen leadership, critical judgment and governance in chaotic conditions - Integrate multi-stakeholder response models for coordinated action - Anticipate system-wide failures using strategic, tactical and operational analysis - Use AI-driven insights to enhance preparedness and improve ROI on resilience investments With new content on AI and lessons from recent crises, this book equips leaders to deliver confident, well-informed strategies that safeguard people, assets and long-term performance. Themes include: strategic risk, crisis leadership, governance, organizational resilience, data-led decision making, AI in risk management

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rubens, David

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Strategisches Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Versicherungswirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Risikomanagement
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Risikobewertung, Risikotheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• • Chapter - 00: Introduction
  • Chapter - 01: Setting the scene – An overview of historical crisis management research
  • Chapter - 02: Corporate risk management in the 2020’s
  • Chapter - 03: Being ready for 'Black swans' and 'grey rhinos'
  • Chapter - 04: Causes of crisis management failure
  • Chapter - 05: Incident command systems and hierarchical management
  • Chapter - 06: Being an effective leader in a crisis;
  • Chapter - 07: The need for operational resilience to become a core concept;
  • Chapter - 08: The regulatory system – a failing safety net
  • Chapter - 09: Global urban resilience in the 2020s
  • Chapter - 10: Creating the new urban order
  • Chapter - 11: In the stranglehold of a pandemic – lessons learnt;
  • Chapter - 12: Overcoming 'wicked problems'
  • Chapter - 13: Looking to the future: AI and risk management

Über Autor(innen)

Rubens, David
<b>David Rubens</b> is CEO of the ISRM Corporate Group and Executive Director of the Institute of Strategic Risk Management (ISRM), which he founded in 2018. He is a recognised authority on the strategic management of complex events, particularly within a multi-agency crisis management framework. He has worked with government agencies, multi-national corporations and global NGOs in modelling, preparing for and engaging with the complex risks that the world is currently facing. He is a member of the UK National Preparedness Commission, an Associate of the UK Resilience Academy, is on the Advisory Board of a number of multi-national organisations and was voted as No 1 Global Influencer for Thought Leadership in the IFSEC 2019 poll.

David Rubens is CEO of the ISRM Corporate Group and Executive Director of the Institute of Strategic Risk Management (ISRM). He has worked with government agencies, multi-national corporations and global NGOs in modelling, preparing for and engaging with the complex risks. He is a member of the UK National Preparedness Commission, an Associate of the UK Resilience Academy and is on the Advisory Board of a number of multi-national organisations. He is based in London, UK.