Features – Page 5
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Tools for change
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
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
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
Companies are struggling in their fight to protect IP. Their risk managers can help, says Andrew Leslie
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The gold standard
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
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!
Companies continue to be brought down by the demise of a key supplier. Neil Hodge provides some guidelines on avoiding the pitfalls
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The cost of corruption
Nathan Skinner reviews anti bribery and corruption measures – and discusses just how effective they are
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The Cyprus connection
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?
Stephen Roberts, Eddie McLaughlin and James Maxwell describe the elements that make up best practice
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Changing markets
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
The world is a risky place and economic recession has not helped, says Nathan Skinner
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Dealing with economic downturn
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
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
Food producers should take all reasonable precautions and exercise due diligence
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Managing product safety recalls
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
Communication can be the difference between a good and badly handled product recall, says Julia Johnson
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Projects under the microscope
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
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
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