Digital Identity Management
Technological, Business and Social Implications
Edited by David Birch
This book brings together the work of the annual Digital Identity Forum in London, provides a wide-ranging perspective on this subject and explores the current technology available for identity management, its applications within business, and its significance in wider debates about identity, society and the law. This is an essential introduction for organizations seeking to use identity to get closer to customers; for those in government at all levels wrestling with targeted online delivery of services; as well as those concerned with the wider issues of identity, rights, the law, and the potential risks. Read more

Understanding and Managing Risk Attitude, Second Edition by David Hillson and Ruth Murray-Webster
David Hillson's and Ruth Murray-Webster's new revised paperback edition of this respected text will help you understand the human aspects of risk management and to manage proactively the influence of human behaviour on the risk process. The authors introduce a range of models, perspectives and examples to define and detail the range of possible risk attitudes; looking both at individuals and groups. Using leading-edge thinking on self-awareness and emotional literacy they develop a powerful approach to address the most common shortfall in current risk management: the failure to manage the human aspects of the process. Read more

Talent Assessment
A New Strategy for Talent Management
by Tony Davis with Maggie Cutt, Neil Flynn, Peter Mowl and Simon Orme
Talented and ambitious people will only stay with their current employer if they are offered positive development, motivation and nurturing. Talent Assessment demonstrates how to manage the needs of these individual employees and those of the organization in parallel; how to identify the aspirational and development needs of potential top performers and how to manage them sensibly. It provides positive, practical guidelines to encourage you to implement a suitable talent management programme as well as introducing more advanced aspects of the subject, particularly in terms of assessing suitable candidates for this way of managing your organization's future. Read more

Outsourcing Energy Management
Saving Energy and Carbon through Partnering
by Steven Fawkes
This book offers a comprehensive guide to outsourcing energy management, discussing the risks and benefits, and taking managers through the process of deciding whether to outsource or not, and finding and assessing an outsourcing partner.Read more