Risk management is an umbrella discipline that cuts across all areas of an organisation’s activities. From the strategic to the operational, it needs to be integral to all activities.

Initiatives taking place in business, commerce, science, technology and information exchange all involve taking risk. Without effective risk management many of these initiatives may fail. Managing risk can be a powerful tool to reduce overall costs and ensure that projects remain on track.

Now, more than ever before, public service organisations need to embrace risk management and examine how they handle risk in all its forms.

This new and incisive guide has been written specifically to help public service managers at all levels understand their role in incorporating risk management into their work.

Prepared by a joint CIPFA/ALARM expert panel of authors, it explains how risk management can be embedded into the culture of public service organisations and made a central part of the management process.

The guide’s comprehensive coverage includes:

• What is risk management?
• The elements of successful risk management
• Embedding risk management within the organisation
• Identifying the risks
• Assessing the likelihood and impact
• Determining the response and agreeing action

The guide costs £65.00.