Features – Page 13

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    Delivering the promise

    13 June 2008

    Nathan Skinner runs his eye over the multitude of risks faced by companies who neglect ethical behaviour

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    Capricious fate and human folly

    6 June 2008

    Risk managers could learn some valuable lessons from the ancient world, says Andrew Leslie

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    Today's European risk manager

    6 June 2008

    Peter Joy looks at some of the findings of StrategicRisk’s Europe-wide survey of risk manager attitudes and concerns

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    Brazil: a tough nut

    6 June 2008

    There's an old saying (often recounted even by Brazilians) that Brazil is the country of the future... and always will be! While in the past this would bring an ironic smile, now, perhaps things are starting to change, says Mike Watters

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    A framework to restore confidence

    6 June 2008

    After the recent events in the banking sector, more financial services firms may turn to enterprise risk management, says Gordon Burnes

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    Holistic security

    18 May 2008

    Despite the huge sums of money spent on network security, organisations appear incapable of protecting confidential data. A change of approach is required, argues Gordon Rapkin

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    The changing face of corporate defence: Part 1

    18 May 2008

    Sean Lyons asks to what extent the corporate world is preparing itself for defending the interests of all its stakeholders

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    The changing face of corporate defence: Part 2

    18 May 2008

    Sean Lyons asks to what extent the corporate world is preparing itself for defending the interests of all its stakeholders

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    Creating value

    6 May 2008

    John Abbott pleads for a more enlightened corporate attitude to risk management

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    Managing supply in an outsourced world

    6 May 2008

    Procurement and risk management need to team up over modern supply chains, say Alex Hindson and Finlay Murray

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    Challenges grow more sophisticated

    6 May 2008

    Scenario planning can build capacity to adapt to large-scale political shocks

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    More than money?

    6 May 2008

    Fraudsters may not be motivated by personal gain alone, say Julian Parker and Ed Wilding. Can offender profiling help to spot them?

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    Heading in the right direction?

    1 April 2008

    Beata Paxford fears that the rules governing insurance intermediaries in Poland may not have achieved the EC’s aims of a level playing field

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    No more easy oil

    1 April 2008

    The development of deep water fields, often in remote locations lacking infrastructure, poses new challenges to the offshore energy industry, which must operate facilities safely over 20 to 30 years in harsh environmental conditions. By Phil Thomas and David Brown

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    Breaking down the silos

    1 April 2008

    Business continuity and risk management have both come from very different places, yet there are increasingly obvious similarities on how both disciplines are applied in practice, says Douglas Ure

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    Risk management progresses

    1 April 2008

    Rafal Rudnicki provides an overview on how risk management is evolving in Poland

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    The revolving door that leads to nowhere

    1 April 2008

    Andrzej S Nartowski looks at Poland's approach to corporate governance

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    In the wake of SocGen

    1 April 2008

    Yet another financial scandal has highlighted the weaknesses of some organisations’ internal control. Are companies failing to learn lessons from the past? Or has the operating environment changed so much that it is making these lessons irrelevant?

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    UK flood claim and counter-claim

    6 March 2008

    There have been times in the past year when the British public have witnessed scenes like those gunfighters at the OK Corral where insurers have stood their ground and called on Parliament to do something about flooding – or else. By Sam Elliott

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    Don’t risk delay: update your BIA today

    15 February 2008

    Updating a business impact analysis can be costly and time-consuming. But fail to do it, and your continuity plans may not be worth the paper they are written on, says James Mitchell