All Editorial articles – Page 180

  • Features

    Embedded risk management - the new grail?

    2001-06-14T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Analysis

    Ergonomic solution to MSDs

    2001-06-14T00:00:00Z

    After 10 years' research, the American Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has released an ergonomics programme standard.

  • Analysis

    Extreme value theory

    2001-06-14T00:00:00Z

  • Analysis

    Failure to take information security seriously

    2001-06-14T00:00:00Z

    Half of all IT managers do not know if their organisation has an information security policy in place.

  • Features

    FSOs go green

    2001-06-14T00:00:00Z

    Geoff Lane and Amy Clarke describe how UK financial services organisations (FSOs) are responding to the call for good environmental management.

  • Features

    Making the grade

    2001-06-14T00:00:00Z

    How do rating agencies assess your company's credit status? Does good corporate governance help? Chris Legge summarises some key points.

  • AIRMIC Portfolio

    New guide to integrated risk management

    2001-06-14T00:00:00Z

    AIRMIC is publishing new professional guidelines for risk reporting that will help organisations meet the challenge of complying with corporate governance requirements.

  • Features

    The hazardous office

    2001-06-14T00:00:00Z

    How safe are your company's offices? Rosalind Benjamin gives some guidelines on assessing and removing dangers.

  • AIRMIC Portfolio

    Top risk managers honoured

    2001-06-14T00:00:00Z

    Prize-winning risk managers and a respected member of the profession received awards at the AIRMIC annual dinner in London.

  • Features

    Risk Information

    2001-06-14T00:00:00Z

    Sue Copeman reports on the Willis Business Risk Practice Think Tank on risk information for the 2ist century.

  • Analysis

    Winning with integrity

    2001-06-14T00:00:00Z

    A new UK report spells out the advantages of being a socially responsible business.

  • Analysis

    Internet warning

    2001-06-14T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Features

    Intranet training

    2001-06-14T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Features

    Managing land risks

    2001-06-14T00:00:00Z

    Alasdair Fox and Alastair McKie discuss the impact of legal change.

  • Analysis

    Shedding a light on risk

    2001-06-14T00:00:00Z

    Risk managers should stop believing that risk is bad.

  • Features

    Maintaing M&A momentum

    2001-06-14T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Analysis

    Risk management training

    2001-06-14T00:00:00Z

    The IRM and the IOSH are offering a new training course for managers.

  • Features

    Managing your people risks

    2001-06-14T00:00:00Z

    Family friendly policies create new risk issues. You should consider strategic HR and people risk management, says Mark Edelsten.

  • Analysis

    USA v Microsoft

    2001-06-14T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Analysis

    Stopping occupational spammers

    2001-06-14T00:00:00Z

    A recent survey by Gartner Group found that up to one-third of internal business e-mail was unnecessary.