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    A softer landing

    12 March 2007

    The acquisition of BAA by Ferrovial brings together two companies which both take risk management extremely seriously.

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    Extortion - Held For Ransom

    12 March 2007

    Clive Stoddart warns that companies which fail to educate employees on the dangers of kidnap could be exposing themselves to legal action - but individuals need to take responsibility too.

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    Finding the leverage points

    19 December 2006

    Modifying the behaviour of complex systems in such a way as to minimise risk and promote opportunity is a crucial risk management function. Andrew Leslie looks to an essay by the late Donella Meadows to identify the leverage points where risks or opportunities are likely to congregate

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    Smash the rose coloured glasses!

    12 September 2006

    Ben Gilad says that executives who think they are right even when they are wrong pose the biggest strategic risk to companies.

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    Publication Reviews

    23 May 2006

    Two new editions of books which look at preventing disasters, and managing the issues which lead to them, make good reading for risk managers, says Andrew Leslie

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    Enterprise risk management

    17 February 2006

    Mike Walker discusses viewing risk holistically

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    Communicate to mitigate

    21 December 2005

    Jean-Paul Louisot explains the need to communicate widely about the nature of risks and risk management

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    COMPETITIVE OR COMPLIMENTARY?

    14 November 2005

    Alain Chilot, Cyril Vegni and Sebastien Guery discuss how risk management and internal audit functions can work in harmony

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    Risk management and corporate governance

    4 October 2005

    Corporate governance initiatives in Europe are changing the risk management role according to a recent Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) survey

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    Site Security and Systems

    28 February 2005

    How are organisations managing or going to manage the new and substantial demands placed on site security teams? Bruno Brunskill challenges whether these demands have been fully appreciated

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    Trust me - I'm a consultant

    28 February 2005

    It is not only companies that need to focus on reputational management Their consultants too should look at achieving standards of excellence. Tom Lambert and Mark Townsend write.

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    Looking into the crystal ball

    20 December 2004

    What risks will the future bring? Does today's science fiction presage tomorrow's fact?

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    Elevating project risk

    15 September 2004

    Use risk management as a vital tool for project success, advises Eric Pavyer

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    Heeding the wake up call

    29 June 2004

    Companies must recognise the threat of terrorism and the need to address it, stresses Mark Harris

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    Keeping Your Promises

    29 June 2004

    Jenny Rayner explores how you can protect and enhance corporate reputation by managing risks to delivering customer promise

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    Educating Tomorrow's Risk Managers

    10 June 2004

    Jean-Paul Louisot looks at developing and disseminating risk management knowledge and enhanced standards of excellence

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    Risk Management Today

    21 April 2004

    What issues are European risk managers focusing on? StrategicRISK finds out

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    Meeting Future Needs

    21 April 2004

    What training and qualities do Europe's risk managers need to meet current and future needs? Three European academics give their views

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    What CRISIS?

    23 October 2003

    When a crisis happens, 'group think' and the 'denial curve'...

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    On High Alert

    15 September 2003

    David Claridge suggests some practical...