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    Top risks for French risk managers

    1 November 2012

    Cybercrime’s seemingly limitless potential for disruption is giving French risk managers sleepless nights

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    Five steps to re-emerging as a resilient organisation

    24 February 2012

    Organisations need to rebuild their risk management structures to cope with the increasing frequency of unforeseen, devastating risk events

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    How to: Avoid getting caught out by trade sanctions

    24 February 2012

    Governments are increasingly willing to use trade sanctions as a political tool, and can put them in place quickly. Businesses must work hard to keep on top of regulatory changes

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    Managing your way out of a crisis

    29 October 2011

    Recent research shows that most companies will face a value destroying catastrophe at least once every five years. Here two experts show how responding well to one can actually help boost the value and reputation of your company

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    How to manage a global supply chain

    6 October 2011

    Global sourcing can be a cost-effective measure, but it does present an array of potential risks that must be accounted for

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    How to: Minimise the drama of a crisis

    31 January 2011

    Product recalls are the stuff of commercial nightmare, but businesses can take several steps to handle the situation well

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    Philip Osmond, British Airways

    29 January 2011

    In an exclusive interview, the airline risk boss explains how you can't always plan for every eventuality and why risk resiliency is the order of the day

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    How to: Deal with nanotechnology risks

    23 November 2010

    Nanotechnology is carving new frontiers in manufacturing, medicine and food processing, creating a stream of new risks in its wake

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    Gagged and caged

    29 October 2010

    The likes of Facebook and Twitter have created new ways for businesses to connect with their customers. Now they must learn to use these social media platforms while not ignoring the reputation risks they pose

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    Plight of the honeybee

    22 August 2010

    Pesticides, parasites, disease – the growing list of aggressors against the humble honeybee is causing the population to die out and, Emily Miller warns, the ramifi cations will be huge

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    How to: Make sure you're ready to face the judges

    22 August 2010

    When Standard & Poor’s added risk management to its credit rating assessment, some doubted it had the credibility to properly judge the discipline. But as a good rating is vital to success, says Nathan Skinner, does your ERM do enough to impress the panel?

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    Winning treatment

    22 August 2010

    Launching a series of fi rst-hand accounts of practical risk management, Mike Florence, who led AstraZeneca’s programme, explains how the team’s strategy has breathed new life into its respiratory and infl ammatory efforts

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    Continental shift

    22 August 2010

    The Environmental Liability Directive has been on the agenda for years, but now that it has reached all corners of Europe, multinational organisations no longer have any excuse for turning a blind eye to the consequences of their environmental actions

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    Special Report: Property Risk

    22 August 2010

    Robust property risk management practices may call for serious investment in loss protection – but the benefi ts for the corporate bottom line can often more than compensate

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    The first line of defence

    22 August 2010

    The effects of a blaze in a large building or facility go beyond just safety and structural damage, and can be ruinous – to the local infrastructure, economy and environment. But installing sprinkler protection could take businesses out of the line of fi re, says FM Global’s Brendan MacGrath

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    New world order

    22 August 2010

    Corporate multinational property insurance programmes can provide signifi cant cost and control benefi ts – but risk managers should be aware of the potential pitfalls

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    Life-saving strategy

    5 August 2010

    One of the biggest nightmares for any risk manager who buys insurance is having a large claim that isn’t fully covered. And a possible area where this could happen is business interruption. Dave Henderson and Philip Johnson believe that FM Global has a solution to help risk managers sleep better ...

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    A lot of hot ash?

    27 July 2010

    Was the blanket ban on air travel caused by the ash cloud less about good risk management and more about an obsession with safety? Nathan Skinner reports

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    Special Report: Public sector risks

    27 July 2010

    Local authorities are being forced to get creative in order to cut costs without losing precious services – and all done in the full glare of the public eye, finds Sue Copeman. In this special report on the public sector, we focus on the impact such changes will have on ...

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    The perfect space storm

    22 July 2010

    As solar activity hots up, could we be heading towards another massive sun storm? The effects of such a superstorm could be devastating to the technology-dependent modern world - we need to up our sun protection, says Nathan Skinner