Documents tagged 'Risk'
Published: 15/11/2009
The Internet has made this world an open enterprise. It has become important for companies to further expand their market and their consumer targets. Engaging to Internet Marketing maybe a risk for people who wish to be involved with this type of business.
Ensure that most of your target...
Published: 08/11/2009
Business is about risk and profit. Generally, the more risk a business accumulates the more profit this business can earn. However, with joint ventures that involves multiple locations, many unknown factors and complexity risk moves upwards significantly. However, on the other hand, risk of...
Published: 08/11/2009
The quality of the products and services offered by a company represent definitely the most important aspect for each business. While everyone may naturally associate entrepreneurialism with business, they are not necessarily linked concepts a business person may not be an entrepreneur, while an...
Published: 08/11/2009
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3 Alphas in Management is written using very simple yet effective and proven management techniques that I have been using in my almost 30 years in senior management positions in varied industries, including as a Vice President with a large multi-national company (MNC) and as a...
Published: 08/11/2009
Organizations take on risk when they do not know their customers, employees and vendors. According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners 2006 Report to the Nation on Occupational Fraud and Abuse, "U.S. organizations lose an estimated 5 percent of annual revenues to fraud." Fraud goes...
Published: 08/11/2009
Nobody imagines their office will suffer from a fire and to be honest, the level of preparation often reflects this. Previously in the UK, fire certificates were handed out by the fire services, but as of 2006, businesses are required to carry out their own fire risk assessment.
This fire...
Published: 08/11/2009
Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) is an often overlooked source of risk for captives and their parents.
Now that the tax benefits of self-insuring through offshore parties are generally eroded, the captive industry is largely dependent for its success on a high level of risk transfer and risk...
Published: 08/11/2009
When it comes to electrical safety, many people in commercial, service and light industrial sectors view their workplaces as low-risk environments where their safety is not at risk. Unfortunately, electrical shock accidents in the workplace are increasingly common in all work environments - not...
Published: 08/11/2009
Understand what a hazard and a risk is; a hazard is a source of danger that could cause harm, for example chemicals, electrical wires, ladders whilst the risk is the likelihood of someone being harmed by these hazards. For example an electrical wire is a hazard; if it is a live wire that if...
Published: 08/11/2009
In each human endeavour there is an element of risk; personal, project or financial, or a combination of them all. The job of the responsible individual is to identify the risk and act accordingly. We all do these ’risky’ things, almost daily, aware that we are taking a risk. Rather than...