abstract: The construction industry has accepted the uncertainty that is included with every project that is initiated. Because of the existing uncertainty, best practices with risk management are commonly recommended and educated to industry participants. However, the current status of the construction industry's ability to manage risk was found to be limited, unstructured, and inadequate. Furthermore, many barriers block organizations from implementing and improving risk management practices. A significant barrier with improving risk management methods is the lack of evidence that clearly demonstrates the need to improve risk management practices. Logical explanations of the benefits of risk management doesn't provide the necessary justification or motivation needed for many organizations to dedicate resources towards improving risk management. Nevertheless, some organizations understand the importance of risk management practices and have begun to measure their risk maturity in order to identify weaknesses and improve risk management practices. Risk maturity measures the organization's ability and perceptions towards risk management. It is possible that many of the barriers to improving risk management would not exist if increased risk maturity was found to have a positive correlation with successful project performance. The comprehensive hypothesis of the research is that increased risk maturity improves project performance. An exploratory study was conducted on data collected to identify measurable benefits with risk management. Quantitative and qualitative data was collected on 266 construction projects over a seven year period. Multiple statistical analyses were performed on the data and found a positive correlations between risk maturity and project performance. A positive correlations was found between customer satisfaction and contractors risk maturity. Additional findings from the recorded data included the increased ability to predict risks during construction projects within an organization. These findings provide clear reasoning for organizations to devote additional resources in which improve their risk management practices. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Construction 2014

M.Com. (Business Management) / Risk management is an important factor in ensuring business and project success. Thus, risk management methodologies are constantly being developed and improved. In order to define the goals, specify the process and manage progress, it is necessary to have a clear view of the enterprise‟s current approach to risk, as well as a definition of the intended destination. Benchmarking offers the opportunity to determine the current maturity capability against agreed frameworks, and also provides a structured route to improvement. A generally accepted framework is needed in order for an organisation to benchmark its current maturity and capability in managing risk, and this framework should also assist in defining progress towards increased maturity. Being an assessment tool, a risk maturity model is designed to measure risk management capability and to provide objectives for improvement The purpose of the research is to identify, adapt and recommend a sound risk maturity model, together with an easily applicable and effective questionnaire for use to measure the risk capability maturity of a Life Insurer (“Liberty Life”). To achieve this aim, six risk management maturity models were identified through a literature review and the proposed model was further supported with long-term insurance specific attributes of risk management as advocated by leading corporate governance codes and regulations such as King III and the newly proposed Financial Services Board (FSB) Solvency Assessment and Management (SAM) regime. Despite the widening consensus on the value of risk management, effective implementations of risk processes into organisations are not common. The benefits of mature risk management have been discussed in Chapter 2. By adopting an exploratory approach, the researcher conducted a qualitative research project, in the form of an in-depth case study, on a multinational financial services organisation. Unstructured face-to-face interviews were held with senior executives and risk managers in order to gather data regarding what they perceive as key attributes, including acceptable measurement criteria, of a risk maturity model appropriate and effective for implementation in their organisation.

The goal of the paper is to compare impacts of interest rate risk measuring meth-ods on capital requirements. The first section identifies methods for measuring interest rate risk and capital requirements for interest rate risk set by regulators. The second section compares capital requirements of model portfolio calculated by using standardized methods as well as internal models.

O aprofundamento do processo de globalização gera dentre inúmeros outros fenômenos o recrudescimento da competitividade entre as empresas e setores econômicos e o crescimento do grau de volatilidade. Para expandir suas carteiras de investimentos e também para atender às necessidades de crescimento dos mercados e ainda para satisfazer a demanda global, as empresas estabelecidas nos países centrais geram empreendimentos em seus países de origem, bem como nos denominados países emergentes. Os governos locais e as empresas nacionais dos países emergentes também geram empreendimentos. Este processo de expansão produz a necessidade do uso de metodologias consistentes para o gerenciamento dos riscos operacionais e de projetos. Muitos projetos, senão a quase totalidade são gerenciados sem que haja o adequado uso de metodologias e ou modelos de gerenciamento e isto tem causado inúmeras perdas financeiras e de recursos com intensidade e impacto variáveis, porém significativos. Inúmeras pesquisas têm apontado para a ausência de um modelo estruturado para gerenciamento riscos de projetos, por parte das empresas que possuem uma carteira relevante de projetos e que não dispõe de modelos e ou metodologias para gestão de riscos de seus projetos. A partir desta realidade a criação de um modelo estruturado para gestão de riscos de projetos atenderia uma demanda real produto de uma situação concreta. Este trabalho propôs a criação de um modelo estruturado para a gestão de riscos de projetos com base na identificação das principais lacunas existente na literatura de riscos de projetos e também a partir das principais deficiências das praticas percebidas. Realizaram-se quatro estudos de casos. Os três primeiros serviram para a identificação das principais lacunas e deficiências das práticas efetuadas pelas empresas e percebidas através dos estudos de caso. O ultimo estudo de caso validou o modelo proposto, demonstrando assim as implicações e oportunidades decorrentes de sua aplicação, ficando devidamente cacacterizado que o modelo pode cumprir com os seus principais objetivos organizacionais propostos, sobretudo o aspecto implantação de inteligência dos riscos. Posteriormente, o modelo também foi submetido a um grupo de especialistas em riscos de projetos e os resultados puderam evidenciar suas principais diferenças em relação ao modelo sugerido pelo Grupo de Interesses Específicos do PMI- RISKSIG e isto pode revelar as percepções destes profissionais em relação ao modelo e delinear a viabilidade da continuidade de pesquisas futuras a partir de seu uso, tendo sido ficado evidenciado que o modelo proposto nesta tese foi considerado superior em relação a todos os critérios de comparação com o Modelo RMMM, sendo considerado inferior em relação a apenas dois dos oito critérios de julgamento pelos especialistas. / The deepening of the globalization process generates innumerable other problems inside the emergency of the competitiveness between the economic companies and sectors and the growth of the volatileness degree. To expand its portfolios of investments and also to take care of to the necessities of growth of the markets and also for the satisfaction of the global demand, the companies established in the countries central offices generate enterprises in its native countries, as well as in the called emergent countries. This process of expansion produces the necessity of the consistent use of methodologies for the management of the operational risks and of projects. Many projects, otherwise almost the totality are managed without that it has the adjusted use of methodologies and or models of management and this has caused innumerable financial losses and of resources with changeable intensity and impact, however significant. Innumerable research has pointed with respect to the absence of a model structuralized for management risks of projects, on the part of the companies who possess an excellent wallet of projects and that she does not make use of models and or methodologies for management of risks of its projects. To break of this reality the creation of a model structuralized for management of risks of projects it would take care of to a real demand product of a concrete situation. This work on the basis of considered the creation of a model structuralized for the management of risks of projects the identification of the main gaps existing in the literature of risks of projects and also from the main deficiencies of you practise them perceived. Four studies of cases had been become fullfilled. The three first ones had served for the identification of the main gaps and deficiencies of the practical ones effected by the companies and perceived through the case studies It was finished it case study validated the model considered, thus demonstrating to the implications and decurrent chances of its application. Later, the model also was submitted to a group of specialists in risks of projects and the results had been able to evidence its main differences in relation to the model suggested for the PMI and this can disclose the perceptions of these professionals in relation to the model and delineate the viability of the continuity of future research from the use of this model.

O aprofundamento do processo de globalização gera dentre inúmeros outros fenômenos o recrudescimento da competitividade entre as empresas e setores econômicos e o crescimento do grau de volatilidade. Para expandir suas carteiras de investimentos e também para atender às necessidades de crescimento dos mercados e ainda para satisfazer a demanda global, as empresas estabelecidas nos países centrais geram empreendimentos em seus países de origem, bem como nos denominados países emergentes. Os governos locais e as empresas nacionais dos países emergentes também geram empreendimentos. Este processo de expansão produz a necessidade do uso de metodologias consistentes para o gerenciamento dos riscos operacionais e de projetos. Muitos projetos, senão a quase totalidade são gerenciados sem que haja o adequado uso de metodologias e ou modelos de gerenciamento e isto tem causado inúmeras perdas financeiras e de recursos com intensidade e impacto variáveis, porém significativos. Inúmeras pesquisas têm apontado para a ausência de um modelo estruturado para gerenciamento riscos de projetos, por parte das empresas que possuem uma carteira relevante de projetos e que não dispõe de modelos e ou metodologias para gestão de riscos de seus projetos. A partir desta realidade a criação de um modelo estruturado para gestão de riscos de projetos atenderia uma demanda real produto de uma situação concreta. Este trabalho propôs a criação de um modelo estruturado para a gestão de riscos de projetos com base na identificação das principais lacunas existente na literatura de riscos de projetos e também a partir das principais deficiências das praticas percebidas. Realizaram-se quatro estudos de casos. Os três primeiros serviram para a identificação das principais lacunas e deficiências das práticas efetuadas pelas empresas e percebidas através dos estudos de caso. O ultimo estudo de caso validou o modelo proposto, demonstrando assim as implicações e oportunidades decorrentes de sua aplicação, ficando devidamente cacacterizado que o modelo pode cumprir com os seus principais objetivos organizacionais propostos, sobretudo o aspecto implantação de inteligência dos riscos. Posteriormente, o modelo também foi submetido a um grupo de especialistas em riscos de projetos e os resultados puderam evidenciar suas principais diferenças em relação ao modelo sugerido pelo Grupo de Interesses Específicos do PMI- RISKSIG e isto pode revelar as percepções destes profissionais em relação ao modelo e delinear a viabilidade da continuidade de pesquisas futuras a partir de seu uso, tendo sido ficado evidenciado que o modelo proposto nesta tese foi considerado superior em relação a todos os critérios de comparação com o Modelo RMMM, sendo considerado inferior em relação a apenas dois dos oito critérios de julgamento pelos especialistas. / The deepening of the globalization process generates innumerable other problems inside the emergency of the competitiveness between the economic companies and sectors and the growth of the volatileness degree. To expand its portfolios of investments and also to take care of to the necessities of growth of the markets and also for the satisfaction of the global demand, the companies established in the countries central offices generate enterprises in its native countries, as well as in the called emergent countries. This process of expansion produces the necessity of the consistent use of methodologies for the management of the operational risks and of projects. Many projects, otherwise almost the totality are managed without that it has the adjusted use of methodologies and or models of management and this has caused innumerable financial losses and of resources with changeable intensity and impact, however significant. Innumerable research has pointed with respect to the absence of a model structuralized for management risks of projects, on the part of the companies who possess an excellent wallet of projects and that she does not make use of models and or methodologies for management of risks of its projects. To break of this reality the creation of a model structuralized for management of risks of projects it would take care of to a real demand product of a concrete situation. This work on the basis of considered the creation of a model structuralized for the management of risks of projects the identification of the main gaps existing in the literature of risks of projects and also from the main deficiencies of you practise them perceived. Four studies of cases had been become fullfilled. The three first ones had served for the identification of the main gaps and deficiencies of the practical ones effected by the companies and perceived through the case studies It was finished it case study validated the model considered, thus demonstrating to the implications and decurrent chances of its application. Later, the model also was submitted to a group of specialists in risks of projects and the results had been able to evidence its main differences in relation to the model suggested for the PMI and this can disclose the perceptions of these professionals in relation to the model and delineate the viability of the continuity of future research from the use of this model.

The primary objective of this study was to develop an Enterprise Risk Management Maturity Framework (ERMMF) for use in the assessment of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) maturity levels of the insurance industry in Botswana. The ERMMF incorporated elements from the Committee of Sponsoring Organisations of the Treadway Commission (COSO)’s ERM framework and the AON risk maturity model. Five criteria were utilised to define each of the eight components of ERM used to measure ERM maturity levels. The framework was developed qualitatively through literature review. The ERMMF was tested empirically to evaluate the ERM maturity levels of the insurance industry in Botswana. Data was collected from 12 respondents from long-term insurance companies, 15 from short-term insurance companies, 4 from reinsurers and 59 from brokerages. The findings revealed that the whole insurance industry is at the Defined stage of ERM maturity level as the responses bordered around 3 on the developed scale of measurement. The findings implied that the insurance sector in Botswana has generally implemented ERM but not enough follow-ups had been made to ensure that ERM became a continuous process. Results further indicated that although the whole sector was at the defined stage of ERM, the responses in each component differed per stratum. Literature indicates that insurance organisations, regardless of stratum within which they are, are faced with similar risks generally. The differing responses could be due to the magnitude of risks that could differ according to unique characteristics of each stratum. The study further recommended an enterprise risk management implementation procedure for the insurance industry in Botswana. / Business Management / D. Admin (Business Management)