Analysis – Page 52
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AnalysisAre firms prepared for emerging risks?
Fortune 1000 companies may not be taking a long term view of risk management and preparing accordingly for emerging risks
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AnalysisTravel risk assessments
Employers appear to be failing in their duty of care to staff who travel for work
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AnalysisAon: Covering the cost of FMD
Aon consultant warns that standard business interruption policies will not cover foot and mouth disease related losses
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Corporate responsibility
At a workshop hosted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, directors Jon Hauck and Tina Trickett set out to explore what corporate responsibility is and what is driving its future, in front of a mildly sceptical audience. Their theme was that the issue was of growing importance to organisations, and that big statements from ...
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More than corporate philanthropy
Jon Hauck says that corporate responsibility is now recognised as a crucial element of success
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AnalysisTo be or not to be
The future of new corporate manslaughter legislation hangs in the balance as the House of Lords prepares to vote
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Global opportunities
The likelihood scenarios are computed on probabilities of trends for main risks and opportunities for 2007, and are based on mining the internet and expert analysis over the last year. They show:1. Preventing the escalation of the Israel-Palestine/Arab issue from becoming a wider Middle-East conflict = 82%2. Balancing the country ...
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Regulation - Policing the Policemen
A new UK House of Lords ad hoc committee formed to investigate the role of regulators has issued a call for evidence.
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A textbook case of what not to do
Gerald Ratner appears in the textbooks on reputation management as a horrible example of what not to do, to the extent that 'doing a Ratner' has entered business language to mean a senior executive wh
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The - 2007 European Risk Management Awards
The judges have deliberated - and we can now announce the shortlist for StrategicRISK's 2007 European Risk Management Awards.
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Nationalism: a major issue
Risk complexity, nationalism and arbitrary regulation have emerged as significant threats to multinational corporations' balance sheets, according to the latest global analysis by Aon political risk e
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Current and future risks
Regulation was also cited as a huge burden, costing, according to the British Chamber of Commerce, £10bn between 1997 and 2005. However, Royal & SunAlliance's Risk Uncovered Index2 identifies the biggest future risks facing UK businesses as predominantly stemming from problems close to home.Strong competition in the market place has ...
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News Briefs
- Risk Governance Ltd has released a new version of its enterprise risk management software Acertus(TM) Governance.- MEGA International has launched the MEGA Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) platform, designed to help European business managers strategically and operationally achieve more efficient corporate governance and address internal and external compliance requirements.
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AnalysisStick verses Carrot
Two recent reports suggest that the stick may work better than the carrot in making companies embrace good risk management, with mere guidelines not being enough.
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Pan-european pensions beckon
Multinational companies could be missing an opportunity to save costs and reduce risks by continuing to operate separate pension schemes across Europe, according to Mercer Human Resource Consulting.
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Why don't we learn?
Disasters will happen time and again unless organisations take the opportunity to learn what went wrong and do something to stop it happening again.
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Ready for change?
Are you ready for change? This is the theme of the FERMA seminar, which will take place in Brussels on 11 October 2006.
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Don't plan for emergencies in isolation
Business continuity plans that are developed and tested in isolation, run the risk of failing.
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Move strategic risk higher up the board agenda
In an April lecture to an audience of senior business professionals and academics, Bill Connell, former director of a FTSE 100 company, chair of the Professional Accountants in Business Committee of t
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UNDERSTANDING UNDERPINS RISK ASSESSMENT
We live in a society that does not understand science and so cannot assess its risks As a result, we have overly cautious regulation that increases fear rather than reducing it.
