All Risk News articles – Page 84
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AnalysisSlaves to your business
We are all complicit in modern slavery. Do you really know if there is forced labour in your supply chain? Because ultimately, the buck and the power to changed enslaved people’s lives, lands with you.
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AnalysisStrategicRISK Q3 2019: Smoke without fire?
We all know: Don’t believe everything you read. But in a social media-led world where fake news works so hard to be king, how do we avoid getting burned? Because the most crucial messages could be lost if we can’t discern the facts from the fiction
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AnalysisWhen fake facts fan flames
The Amazon rainforest fires have sparked a public outcry and a worldwide call to get serious about climate change. But now, the spread of misleading information and politically motivated angles threatens to undermine this message
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InterviewsRenaissance woman
For Suchitra Narayanan – accomplished dancer, nimble-footed, creative risk manager, and the 2019 StrategicRISK Awards’ leading lady – risk management is a dance, and being part of changing risk her most captivating performance yet
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AnalysisThe revolution marches on
Our #ChangingRisk campaign continues to inspire our community to push ever forward, applying serious energy to discovering what risk management’s future must be
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Special ReportsSpecial report: Digitised industry
Production lines and power plants are now using digitalisation to predict and prevent issues before they happen, remove human error and limit costly shutdowns. Introducing: the smart factory.
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AnalysisGetting to grips with risk criteria
Not all risks are easily measurable, but that doesn’t mean they can’t form part of your risk criteria, argues Sarah Gordon, chief executive of Satarla
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AnalysisSailing close to the wind
European countries are embracing renewable energy and investment is booming. But there is no reason to throw caution to the wind. Surety bonds provide the protection green energy companies need
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AnalysisThomas Cook: tourism experts explain the travel company’s collapse
While the ultimate responsibility for the business failure of Thomas Cook must rest with the hands of its management, they faced a number of factors outside their control, writes Anna Hillingdon, associate professor in risk and resilience and John Fletcher, Professor, Bournemouth University
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AnalysisInsurers braced for Thomas Cook claims as travel firm goes bust
The travel agent is being supported by the Civil Aviation Authority
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AnalysisLloyd’s reveals hundreds of harassment witnesses
An independent advisory group will be set up to ensure it is taking the right actions
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AnalysisCould gamification be the key to managing logistics risk?
Gamification is the application of game-principles and game-design elements in anything that is not a game, and it’s a growing trend in logistics, argues KPMG national sector leader, transport & logistics, Brendan Richards.
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AnalysisThe hidden issue of risk calculations
Risk information isn’t always communicated on the same “playing field”. Information given to the boss may favour one solution over the other – and is the reason why most strategies fail to deliver expected results. But there are other hidden elements at play, writes Adrian Clements, international enterprise risk manager
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AnalysisData is the future of effective risk management
Traditional approaches to risk fail to resonate with senior managers, they are too “subjective” and ”anecdotal”. And if they dismiss risk management, it is because they lack understanding. So, the answer? We need to embark on #ChangingRisk with the use of data, says Danny Wong, CEO of Goat Risk Solutions
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AnalysisDefining your reputation risk
Reputational risk is not “one risk”, but rather a category of risks which may impact your reputation, so how should you define and manage it? Hans Læssøe, principal consultant at AKTUS and former risk manager at Lego Group has this advice
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AnalysisThe myths that hold risk managers back from making a difference at the top table
“I look after strategic risk and you look after operational risk”. When you place risk management into categories, you stop performing ERM and prevent yourself from helping the board make risk-intelligent decisions. Here’s Sarah Gordon’s (chief executive of Satarla) take on #ChangingRisk and influencing decision-making
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AnalysisRansomware attacks on cities are rising – authorities must stop paying out
A ransomware campaign that targeted 23 US cities across Texas has raised serious concerns about the vulnerability of local governments and public services to cyber-attacks, writes David S. Wall, professor of Criminology, University of Leeds
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AnalysisHow to build and lead effective risk workshops
From the five-point plan to the elevator pitch, Sara Benwell gets the essential tips on how to build engagement through risk workshops from risk expert and founder of GOAT Risk Solutions, Danny Wong
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Analysis#ChangingRisk at GVNW 2019
We set up shop in Munich to discuss what needs to change to help risk management move up the risk maturity curve. Here, four risk managers at this year’s symposium give their impassioned views
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AnalysisCyber experts in short supply, says Bertelsmann
Digitalisation has emerged as a significant theme for discussion at this year’s GVNW symposium in Munich, Germany, as insurance and risk professionals consider the impact on their own corporate markets and on the insurance industry.
