All Risk Type articles – Page 40
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Features
Staying in touch
Preparing for a potential communications technology breakdown can save a company from irretrievable damage says Dave Lazenby.
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Analysis
Pay and practices
The Conference Board's new report looks at the size and type of compensation paid to outside directors among companies in three industry sectors.
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Analysis
Stopping occupational spammers
A recent survey by Gartner Group found that up to one-third of internal business e-mail was unnecessary.
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Analysis
USA v Microsoft
Matthias Beck and Lynn Drennan suggest that Microsoft's inability to prevent the break up the software giant could be the risk management failure of the century.
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Managing your people risks
Family friendly policies create new risk issues. You should consider strategic HR and people risk management, says Mark Edelsten.
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Maintaing M&A momentum
Buying or selling a business can involve tough negotiating. You need to tackle stumbling blocks as they arise or the deal may stall or fail. Eddie Barnes explains.
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Putting a price on life
Mike Hanley discusses the cost benefit problems of increasing the safety of the railways.
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Intranet training
Has your organisation got a large number of employees? If so, video programmes may be effective in getting the risk management message across, says Ray Williams.
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Analysis
Internet warning
The risks from e-commerce and using the internet are little understood and potentially crippling, according to Oliver Prior, research and development director of Willis Group Ltd.
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The hazardous office
How safe are your company's offices? Rosalind Benjamin gives some guidelines on assessing and removing dangers.
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FSOs go green
Geoff Lane and Amy Clarke describe how UK financial services organisations (FSOs) are responding to the call for good environmental management.
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Analysis
Failure to take information security seriously
Half of all IT managers do not know if their organisation has an information security policy in place.
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Analysis
Ergonomic solution to MSDs
After 10 years' research, the American Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has released an ergonomics programme standard.
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Features
Embedded risk management - the new grail?
Outsourcing can mean entrusting your hard won customers and reputation to someone else. Can you be sure their risk management principles and processes match yours? Rosie Harrison reports.
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Damage limitation
Fiona Warin discusses communications strategies for damage limitation and the role of public relations.
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Focusing on your customers
In the late 1960s, marketing guru Ted Levitt suggested that the purpose of a business was to "create and keep a customer".
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Features
Ten lessons from the fuel crisis
In September, petrol shortage became as emotive an issue as having no bread or water. Peter Power reviews the lessons.
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Human rights and corporate risk
The Human Rights Act is now law. And it is not only public bodies that are affected writes Tony Cherry.