All Governance articles – Page 54

  • Features

    On the record

    2001-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Honest and open media strategies play a crucial part in successful crisis and risk management, stresses former police spokesman Matt Tapp.

  • Features

    Nothing venture....

    2001-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Corporate leaders may be winners at managing risk but many are in danger of losing the ability to innovate, warns Rob Anderson.

  • Features

    Managing people risks and risky people

    2001-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Mark Edelsten believes that HR managers have an important role to play in the risk management team.

  • Features

    Look, no wires!

    2001-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Verne Meredith suggests an approach to the risks posed by the wireless environment.

  • Features

    Railtrack: Governance under Pressure

    2001-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Lee Coppack discusses whether Railtrack's failure to manage safety risks and maintain shareholder value could have been avoided.

  • Features

    European perspective

    2001-09-26T00:00:00Z

    FERMA's new president, Thierry Van Santen, discusses the challenges facing risk managers.

  • Features

    New markets, different rules

    2001-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Having a website may mean you can sell widgets to customers in Outer Mongolia - but do you really want to? David Smellie and Paula Lennon outline the dangers and how to avoid them.

  • Features

    Time to Deliver

    2001-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Sue Copeman previews this year's Institute of Risk Management annual conference.

  • Features

    Mobile alert

    2001-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Electromagnetic fields emitted by mobile phones and their support infrastructure, look set to be a long-term thorn in the side of many risk managers and insurers. Jessica McCallin reports

  • Features

    Who's the next target?

    2001-06-29T00:00:00Z

    In early April, Morley Fund Management, which manages £100bn in assets, announced that from now on it will vote against the annual accounts of the FTSE 100 companies

  • Features

    Staying on track

    2001-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Concern over business continuity is the main factor fuelling growing corporate interest and investment.

  • Features

    Misunderstood and under-utilised?

    2001-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Forget the old image of the number-crunching and fault finding internal auditors, whose main concern was enforcement of the rules.

  • Analysis

    Iceland:Frozen Value

    2001-06-18T00:00:00Z

    A rather unglamorous frozen food and freezer chain, Iceland’s shares were 113 times oversubscribed when the company went public in 1984.

  • Features

    How vunerable is your information?

    2001-06-18T00:00:00Z

    It is quite disturbing how complacent some organisations are about information security.

  • Features

    Reassessing longtail exposures

    2001-06-18T00:00:00Z

    A recent court decision will cause some companies to reassess their liabilities where past operations have exposed their employees and others to asbestos.

  • Analysis

    The value of environmental performance

    2001-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Does superior environmental performance indicate increased shareholder value? An emerging body of evidence suggests it may, according to a report from the Assabet Group.

  • Editor's Letter

    Editor's letter

    2001-06-18T00:00:00Z

    How much is a chief executive or chairman worth?

  • Features

    Deadly cost of driving

    2001-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Ten people are killed and 1,000 more are injured on Britain’s roads every day.

  • Features

    Don't jeopardise your brand

    2001-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Every organisation with an identity has a brand that it must manage and protect in order to survive and prosper.

  • Features

    In the witness box

    2001-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Litigation is booming. Companies are sued, and directors and employees frequently have to attend court hearings.