Features – Page 17
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New markets, different rules
Having a website may mean you can sell widgets to customers in Outer Mongolia - but do you really want to? David Smellie and Paula Lennon outline the dangers and how to avoid them.
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European perspective
FERMA's new president, Thierry Van Santen, discusses the challenges facing risk managers.
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Firm foundations
Construction projects offer opportunities for fraudsters. Establish some firm rules when commissioning work, urges Geoff Covey.
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Innocents Abroad?
Businesses should make sure that their employees are streetwise. Keith Miller has some tips for travellers.
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Nothing venture....
Corporate leaders may be winners at managing risk but many are in danger of losing the ability to innovate, warns Rob Anderson.
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On the record
Honest and open media strategies play a crucial part in successful crisis and risk management, stresses former police spokesman Matt Tapp.
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Managing people risks and risky people
Mark Edelsten believes that HR managers have an important role to play in the risk management team.
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Look, no wires!
Verne Meredith suggests an approach to the risks posed by the wireless environment.
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Time to Deliver
Sue Copeman previews this year's Institute of Risk Management annual conference.
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Mobile alert
Electromagnetic fields emitted by mobile phones and their support infrastructure, look set to be a long-term thorn in the side of many risk managers and insurers. Jessica McCallin reports
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Who's the next target?
In early April, Morley Fund Management, which manages £100bn in assets, announced that from now on it will vote against the annual accounts of the FTSE 100 companies
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How vunerable is your information?
It is quite disturbing how complacent some organisations are about information security.
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In the witness box
Litigation is booming. Companies are sued, and directors and employees frequently have to attend court hearings.
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Reassessing longtail exposures
A recent court decision will cause some companies to reassess their liabilities where past operations have exposed their employees and others to asbestos.
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Don't jeopardise your brand
Every organisation with an identity has a brand that it must manage and protect in order to survive and prosper.
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The blame game
The Blame Game is alive and flourishing in the UK, as employees follow the US trend and become increasingly litigious.
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Scoring own goals
Imagine that you are at a very important high level meeting to decide the future strategy of your company.
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Getting the right balance
The first in a series of Q&A discussiosn with influential members of the risk management community.
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Deadly cost of driving
Ten people are killed and 1,000 more are injured on Britain’s roads every day.
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Misunderstood and under-utilised?
Forget the old image of the number-crunching and fault finding internal auditors, whose main concern was enforcement of the rules.
