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Analysis
Top tips for managing the biggest risks facing businesses in 2024
A new barometer identifies the biggest threats to organisations wordwide as cyber, business interruption, and nat cats. Here are the report’s top tips for managing the risks
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Interviews
The strategist: FERMA’s new president has a gameplan to elevate the influence of risk
As Charlotte Hedemark takes up her dream role as FERMA president, she tells StrategicRISK editor Sara Benwell that helping risk managers to professionalise and elevate their strategic influence are key goals.
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Features
How to create a risk culture strategy that works
The benefits of a healthy risk culture may be well-understood, but how can risk managers establish where their organisation is on the spectrum of good to bad, and make measurable improvements? Sara Benwell investigates.
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Opinion
Opinion: much of risk mitigation is a waste of time - what to do instead
The world is changing and risk managers must adapt, argues Hans Læssøe, founder of AKTUS and former risk manager at The Lego Group. Here are his top three suggested priorities
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Interviews
Senior risk managers share their top tips for managing connected risk
Breaking down siloes, moving beyond insurance and scenario analysis are all key strategies that modern risk managers must adopt to deal with the new interconnected risk landscape
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Analysis
Quick briefing: how to manage the ‘risk multiplier’ effect
As risks become more interconnected, businesses must consider them holistically instead of in isolation. Here’s how to address the risk multiplier effect
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Case Studies
Case study: How Taprobane Seafood Group are using parametrics to protect against nat cats
A new and innovative parametric structure is allowing shrimp farms in Sri Lanka to protect themselves against multiple weather risks not covered by traditional insurance
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Analysis
Political risk is growing - how risk managers can prepare
Operating successfully will depend on the ability of companies to proactively manage political risks. A new survey shows how the landscape is shifting, and how risk managers can respond.
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Analysis
Mitigating the unintended consequences of technology
Leesa Soulodre, chief innovation officer, Inspirit IoT and adjunct faculty member at the Singapore Management University (SMU), argues more focus needs to be placed on establishing ethical principles and guidelines for the creation and deployment of new AI technologies.
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Analysis
Part one: Building resilience into modern organisations
In the first of our three-part series, risk specialist Warren Black tells us why risk management in the modern age is harder than at any other time in history.
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Analysis
Intangible risk a tangible threat
Do you know the value of intangible assets on your balance sheet? If not, read on. StrategicRISK spoke to EverEdge chief executive officer, Paul Adams to find out why this little-known risk could bring down your firm in a heartbeat.
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Analysis
Time to rebrand 'risk management' as 'certainty management'?
Here at StrategicRISK, we love a good debate about risk management. Risk thought leader, Tim Leech, has some interesting thoughts on the rebranding risk management for your Board. Tell us what you think in the comments section below!
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Analysis
A basic principle most people don’t understand about risk
In this new opinion piece renowned author, blogger and retired chief audit executive, Norman Marks explains why you may have been making a fundamental error in risk management
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Analysis
Don’t waste time managing risks
Stop, collaborate and listen, Hans Læssøe is back with a brand new lesson. In his latest opinion piece, the principal consultant at AKTUS and former risk manager of The LEGO Group explains why things will never be the same again for risk managers.
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Analysis
How to overcome cognitive bias
If we accept there is a cognitive bias in decision making, how can we as risk professionals account for this and help our senior executive make better bias-free decisions? Risk Academy’s Alex Sidorenko discusses.
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Analysis
Part three: Building resilience into a modern organisation
In the final part of our series, risk specialist Warren Black explains how organsations can embed a systemic sense of resilience into organsations.
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Analysis
Part two: Building resilience into modern organisations
Organisational risk frameworks aspire to help their organisations become intelligently responsive to the highly disruptive forces which emerge out of complex working systems, but what does this mean for risk managers? Risk specialist, Warren Black explains.
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Analysis
To ERM or not to ERM?
Is ERM valuable? This was the theme of an online discussion hosted by Alex Sidorenko and Hans Læssøe. StrategicRISK caught up with both risk practitioners ahead of the debate to find out more
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Analysis
The rise of Execution Risk Management and Decision Risk Management
Hans Læssøe, principal consultant at AKTUS and former risk manager of Lego tells StrategicRISK how the effect of an ever-increasing speed of change adds and alters the demands for risk management – both in terms of what to do, and how to do it.
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Analysis
Four future risk management trends you need to know about today
StrategicRISK spoke to Risk Academy chief executive officer, Alex Sidorenko, for some crystal ball gazing about what the future of risk management might look like