Features – Page 53
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Surviving A Downturn
The risks of business failure increase in a recession. Deborah Glen suggests that you take an inward look at your business and gives some checklists for ensuring your procedures are cost-effective
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Ignore Corporate Governance At Your Peril
Investors need to be able to evaluate your corporate governance risk, says Amra Balic
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Banking on Components
Component-based trading and risk management solutions are revolutionising system development at the world's leading financial institutions, writes Martin Gorrod
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Governance And Risk
Carole Edrich reports on the recent International Institute of Research conference on corporate governance
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Creating Value Through CSR
Andreas King and Hayden Morgan put the strategic business case for corporate social responsibility
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Stormy Courtships
Growing by merger or acquisition has been the preferred route for many businesses. David Smellie highlights some practical considerations
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Staying In Business
Maintaining business continuity in the face of a disaster has become a top-of-the-mind issue in an age of global competition, just-in-time delivery, single-source suppliers and lean-and-mean operation
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Leveraging Transaction Value
You won't get full value from a transaction unless you manage cultural change with robust risk management, warn Fiona Gilvey and Jenny Jones
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Flooding – Britain Takes A New Approach
With global warming and continuing flood plain development, flood losses look set to increase. Simon Fullalove says that Britain, which suffered US$1.5bn flood damage in autumn 2000, has recognised
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The siemens experience
Adrian Leonard asked Christoph Urban, Siemens plc's group director of finance, about the organisation's enterprise risk management
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The Risks Of The Web
Facts, gossip and opinions travel fast on the internet. Stakeholders may be following your company on the discussion boards of financial websites and may be making up their minds from what they read t
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Focusing On Sustainable Investment
Philippe Spicher describes what the SiRi Group is doing to research and evaluate companies' social and environmental records
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Coping With Extreme Threats
In a submission to the UK Defence Committee in April, David Gamble looked at how the private and public sectors could contribute in the face of an extreme national threat
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Only Senn To Be Green?
Campaigning organisations remain resolutely unconvinced about the value of public-private partnerships says Jessica McCallin
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Mould Management
Toxic mould may not emerge as the same threat in Europe as it is in the US, but risk managers need to be prepared warns Karl Nann
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Test Your Emergency Response
How and when should you test your crisis plans - and why should you bother? asks Peter Power
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Safe Travel
Street crime is a bigger threat for business travellers than terrorism, says Jake Stratton
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Nigeria And The New Scams
Recent evidence suggests that “419” frauds have got more sophisticated.
