Features – Page 5

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    Tools for change

    22 January 2010

    Tony Dowding sheds light on risk engineering and explains how a process associated with property protection can help firms fine tune their liability exposure

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    Under your controls

    22 December 2009

    In the current climate, procurement teams must find a way to manage the uncertainty of supply price, availability and demand. Risk frameworks are vital but Andrew Leslie finds that the human touch should not be underestimated

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    Making the investment fit

    22 December 2009

    How can risk managers persuade their boards to invest in risk engineering when money is tight? asks Tony Dowding

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    Protecting intellectual property

    29 October 2009

    Companies are struggling in their fight to protect IP. Their risk managers can help, says Andrew Leslie

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    The gold standard

    12 September 2009

    Alex Dali and Christopher Lajtha offer some practical tips for responding to the new risk management standard ISO 31000

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    Under pressure

    12 September 2009

    Chaired by Nathan Skinner, this round table discussion in association with AXA looks at the current challenges facing risk management practitioners

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    Danger in the chain!

    12 September 2009

    Companies continue to be brought down by the demise of a key supplier. Neil Hodge provides some guidelines on avoiding the pitfalls

  • Special Report: Fighting Corruption and Bribery
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    The cost of corruption

    22 July 2009

    Nathan Skinner reviews anti bribery and corruption measures – and discusses just how effective they are

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    The Cyprus connection

    18 July 2009

    Producing fake products is a useful source of income for organised crime and terrorist groups. And Cyprus, a relatively small island in the Mediterranean, is starting to play a pivotal role. Alan Waring explains

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    Just what is meant by Enterprise Risk Management?

    1 July 2009

    Stephen Roberts, Eddie McLaughlin and James Maxwell describe the elements that make up best practice

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    Changing markets

    1 July 2009

    Chaired by Nathan Skinner, a roundtable discussion entitled changing markets took place at AXA Corporate Solutions Switzerland’s client and broker gathering on March 31 in Zurich

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    Unrest and uncertainty

    6 May 2009

    The world is a risky place and economic recession has not helped, says Nathan Skinner

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    Dealing with economic downturn

    6 May 2009

    is risk management being seen as an expendable cost? Or are the skills, tools and information at the disposal of the risk manager exactly what companies turn to?

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    Policing your suppliers

    6 May 2009

    With the threat of jail time, massive fines, exclusion from government contract work, and potentially ruinous damage to their reputations, companies should be putting bribery risks committed via third parties high on their risk agenda, says Neil Hodge

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    European food safety

    6 May 2009

    Food producers should take all reasonable precautions and exercise due diligence

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    Managing product safety recalls

    6 May 2009

    Ed Mitchell and Thomas Zanner explain how to deal with recalls in the food and drink industry

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    Telling it like it is

    6 May 2009

    Communication can be the difference between a good and badly handled product recall, says Julia Johnson

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    Projects under the microscope

    6 May 2009

    The construction industry and its customers are in an economic vice, squeezed on one side by the downturn and, on the other, by radically reduced funding options, says Garry Booth

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    Product recall risk

    6 May 2009

    In today’s world product safety is paramount. Nathan Skinner sets the scene for this special report on product recall

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    Calculating the risk of terrorism

    10 December 2008

    An investment in basic research on terrorism will be paid back many times, as a better knowledge of threats will make risk calculation more of a science than an art. By Professor Alex Schmid