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How to: Seize the opportunity in risk
The real market movers are those that are able to embrace risk as part of their business models and use it to their advantage. But when the stakes are high, how do you make sure you come out a winner?
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How to stay nimble amid the hurdles
Regulators are running risk managers ragged as they struggle to meet ever-more complex general requirements as well as the needs of their business. We check out the obstacles in their path
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How to: Organise a whistleblowing programme
An open culture and positive reporting will identify more black swans than formal procedures alone
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How to: Ten things you should know about the Bribery Act
The new UK Bribery Act is a big deal. It’s a complex and far-reaching piece of law and if something goes wrong, the buck stops at board level. Read on for the top 10 ways to protect your organisation
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The human side of the risk equation
Why taking a social scientific approach to risk management can help you see into the future more effectively
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Bribery Act: Ten things you need to know
The new UK Bribery Act is a big deal for any company operating in the UK: it’s a complex and far-reaching piece of legislation and, if something goes wrong, the buck stops at board level
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Risk strategies with more bite
In the wake of the financial crisis, regulators are paying more attention to how businesses quantify the risk they undertake. What approaches are being taken across the profession?
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How to: Minimise the drama of a crisis
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
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
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
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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The new world order
Governments worldwide are planning drastic changes to the regulatory landscape, these include new duties for directors and better risk management. Neil Hodge investigates whether all the new regulation be a good or bad thing
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Still some way to go
StrategicRISK’s latest benchmarking survey indicates that, while many organisations are seeing the benefi ts from enterprise risk management, a signifi cant number still have some distance to cover before it is fi rmly embedded in their corporate culture
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Plight of the honeybee
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
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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How to: Develop an eagle eye
Nimble, observant, precise: risk management auditors have much to learn from our feathered friends. Liz Taylor urges them to do a spot of bird-watching
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Winning treatment
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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Time to clean up your cover
While regulations bringing in the ‘polluter pays’ principle came into force in the EU some three years ago, experts fear many companies think only ‘heavy’ industries are at risk. Just relying on your public liability policy could end in fi nancial disaster
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Special Report: Environmental risk
Don’t be fooled by the EU’s new environment directive. Each member state has its own take on the new environmental accountability rules. And the onus is very much on multinational companies to get to grips with what each country is serving up – to ensure they are adequately covered across ...
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A model career
Times are bountiful for the LEGO Group, but it’s not all rosy, explains Hans Læssøe, the company’s head of strategic risk