Expert Views – Page 21
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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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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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Expert ViewsA new dawn for the construction industry
As the world’s population continue to grow, demand for enhanced and new infrastructure has never been greater. This poses many challenges and intensifies the risks of project delays and cost overruns. But the tech revolution is bringing fresh new opportunities, albeit slowly
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Expert ViewsPrinting grand designs
Highly cost-effective, energy-efficient, fast – 3D printing could be the future of homebuilding. But is the technology too new for insurers?
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Expert ViewsCan construction truly go green?
After a sustained push to improve the energy efficiency of homes and offices, the focus has now shifted to the construction companies that build them – and they are not performing well
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AnalysisThe future for parametric insurance is bright
Germany’s demand for parametric insurance is growing, but its benefits extend beyond weather-related events, writes Thomas Keist, Innovative Risk Solutions director; and
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AnalysisClimate-driven extreme weather is threatening old bridges with collapse
The recent collapse of a bridge in Grinton, North Yorkshire, raises lots of questions about how prepared we are for these sorts of risks. Maria Pregnolato, University of Bristol and Elizabeth Lewis, Newcastle University, has this report
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AnalysisThe essential ERM toolkit for risk managers
Backed by our #ChangingRisk campaign, we’ve launched a new training programme. This course is first in a series of two. Places are limited, book your place now to avoid disappointment
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AnalysisUsing risk management to influence decisions
Challenge your company’s risk profile, values versus objects, build a risk culture, are some of the outcomes in our risk management training course. This course is the second in a series of two. Places are limited, book your place now to avoid disappointment
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AnalysisThe Cathay Pacific breach: a lesson in managing data protection risks
In June, the aviation industry suffered one of the largest known data breaches in recent history when the personal data of 9.4 million Cathay Pacific passengers was compromised. Mark Parsons, Mark Lin and Byron Phillips from Hogan Lovells in Hong Kong unpick the lessons to be learnt
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Expert ViewsIntangible risks that break the chain
The way we get food across the globe is growing more complex, bringing unseen vulnerabilities to the supply chain, writes Swiss Re Corporate Solutions’ food and agriculture expert Oleksandr Artiushyn
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AnalysisBrexit consequences for Lufthansa Group
Martin Gary, managing director and risk manager for the airline’s in-house broking company talks about how he is preparing for a hard Brexit
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Expert ViewsFast track to rail innovation
Advancements in train travel are notoriously slow. So it is unexpected that railways could be the root of the first significant innovation in mass passenger transit in more than a century
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Expert ViewsTaxis: prosperity and pain
Ride-sharing apps like Uber have been both good and bad for taxi drivers. But the introduction of autonomous vehicles is likely to signal a bleak future for all professional drivers – and challenges for insurers
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Expert ViewsOne-way ticket to a green future
Climate change concerns are fuelling a change in direction as air travel industry explores environmentally friendlier alternatives. The risks of such innovation are high, but the greatest risk of all is standing still
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AnalysisThree levels of strategic risks
The concept of strategic risks has been given a lot of attention. ‘Strategy’ is possibly the hottest and sexiest word in business – but what does it actually mean in terms of risk management? Hans Læssøe, principal consultant at AKTUS, has this answer
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AnalysisWhy you need to rethink supply chains for the tariff storm
Escalating trade tensions between the US and China is creating headaches for risk managers, but there is a solution and it is all in the planning, says SAP Ariba ANZ, regional vice president, Henrik Smedberg.
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AnalysisBusinesses have not done enough to protect intangible assets
Firms have not done enough to protect their core assets, which go far beyond the bricks and mortar of factories and offices, Airmic delegates have been warned
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