Features – Page 4

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    Conflicted directors on thin ice

    1 November 2008

    Danielle Harris warns that new UK rules could force directors to stand down or risk possible claims

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    Fixing injury claims

    16 October 2008

    The Ministry of Justice has proposed reforms to the claims process in the UK. Philip Tracey outlines what they mean and how they could affect the issue of costs

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    The class war

    1 September 2008

    Nathan Skinner tracks the latest developments in European legislation towards evolving a US-style system of collective redress

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    Forgotten, but not gone?

    1 September 2008

    When cases of bird flu were widespread in 2005 and 2006, the risk of a worldwide human influenza pandemic was taken as a serious threat. While the threat has not receded, European companies may have let down their guard, says Graham Buck

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    The Black Swan slain

    1 September 2008

    Developing futures scenarios is a strategic risk management technique for considering what could happen in the future and its possible impact on a company’s objectives. The goal is to establish the basis for managing uncertain or unknown events.By Scott Randall

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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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    Driving an integrated approach to governance risk and compliance

    15 February 2008

    If people responsible for compliance are operating within silos, there may well be areas of neglect, warns Paul Pilkington

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    Achieving a double whammy

    17 December 2007

    Fred Mundt, Alex Hindson and George Nassif describe how applying an enterprise risk management approach to product liability risk allowed an electronics materials company both to provide assurance to its customers and to achieve a big reduction in its insurance premiums

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    More than just procurement

    1 November 2007

    Mathias Estrade, Cyril Végni and Audrey Gandon underline the importance of managing the risks at the heart of the purchasing function

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    Who is an employee?

    1 November 2007

    It is dangerous to think that once you contract out work to someone else, your liability towards them is at an end, says Patricia Baxter

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    Unchecked Risks That Can Lead to Catastrophe

    31 October 2007

    Asset management, planned maintenance and procurement have the potential to create disaster if are not treated with the respect they deserve. By Tony Prior

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    Codes and cultures

    1 October 2007

    There is a growing global consensus about the need for good governance, but cultural differences can intervene. Alan Waring looks at some of the issues arising in Asia and closer to home.

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    There's more to it than 'badging in'

    1 October 2007

    If your security department is bottom of the heap, the organisation is rife with an ‘open’ culture, and IT has pinched the business continuity issues, you can still conduct a fight back. Peter Speight invokes Turnbull and SOX to explain how

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    Enterprise-wide fleet risk profiling

    1 October 2007

    Is fleet risk management just a poor sister in your organisation? John Stevens argues that is too important to be left out in the cold, and needs to be integrated into enterprise risk management. He suggests the solution.

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    EPL An inevitable trend

    1 October 2007

    In the US, where payouts over discrimination claims can be huge, insuring against such claims is seen as a must. Will Europe follow in US footsteps? Nathan Skinner investigates the probability.

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    Risk management and talent

    1 October 2007

    If people are your greatest asset, you ought to be putting a value on that asset and risk managing it. The sums at risk may turn out to be astonishingly high, says Paul Aldrich

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    Insiders are the biggest enemy

    24 September 2007

    Much security effort is expended on preventing external IT breaches, but the potentially catastrophic threats reside internally, warns Edward Wilding

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    Comparison shopping

    24 September 2007

    Lee Coppack looks at how the UK and US giants, Tesco and Wal-Mart are reporting risk, and how their risk management translates in the real world

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    Colour-coded risk management

    24 September 2007

    Two years ago an article about a new risk management tool called KRRIS (the Key Risk Ranking Indicator System) created considerable interest among readers. The system has now been refined and extended to new industries, says Doug Scott.

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    Intelligence and best practice

    24 September 2007

    Charlie Sherlock discusses the value of an effective IT risk management system