Operations management is
becoming critical among the success factors of financial institutions. Banking/ Trading -
Operations Management focuses on the particular challenges and new trends the operations
manager has to address, which involves a balancing act between cost optimization and
growing business requirements. Banking operations have been developed from data-entry and
mass labour-intensive processes to highly automated process controlled environments. This
work comprises a mixture of practical and academic elements; it is designed to contribute
to better functioning operations departments by providing the tools to implement
theoretical concepts in real situations, proven in daily practice.
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART I: TRENDS IN OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
From Data-Entry to Process Control
Outsourcing the Next Stage
Processing and the Internet: Implications for the Back Office
Operational Risk Management: The Core Risk for the Operations Manager
E-Commerce: Remember the Pitfalls
PART II: ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT
Leadership versus Management?
Business Process Redesign
Project Management: Lessons Learned from IT Projects
Cost Accounting in the Operations Area
PART II: LEADING PRACTICE
Collateral Management
OP Risk in Payments
Information Technology for Operations Managers
Management Information For Operations Managers
Author Biographies
DR GERRIT JAN VAN DEN BRINK
is Managing Operational Risk Controller with the Dresdner Bank AG. He was previously an
internal auditor, controller, IT Manager, CFO and Head of Operations with Rabobank in the
Netherlands and Germany. He has also worked as a consultant in operational risk to German
banks. Gerrit Jan van den Brink holds a PhD from the Erasmus University of Rotterdam and
is the author of Operational Risk: The New Challenge for Banks, published by Palgrave
Macmillan in 2001.
900 pages