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Moving beyond Excel: the urgent need for better risk management tools
While Excel may be easy and free, it is no longer sufficient to manage the complex and ever-changing risks faced by organisations today. Danny Wong, an enterprise risk management thought leader, explores the alternatives.
Russia, Ukraine and Africa: Against the Grain
Is Russia’s war in Ukraine a localised conflict, a regional war, or a global disaster?
Born to insure
From a family of insurance experts, Soni Srivastava was perhaps destined for a career in the industry
How short-term challenges are impacting the net-zero transition
Charles Sincock explains how global risks are altering our journey to net zero and what this means for businesses
Room for risk
Marriott’s Sharon Xu on being people-oriented, embracing change and preparing for another COVID at the hotel chain giant
Tipping towards disaster
In this ever-more destabilised world, the post-Cold War rules no longer apply, explains Dragonfly’s Henry Wilkinson
The tough cookie
Philippines-based Annacel Natividad on resilience and building risk relationships in her frequently catastrophe-hit country
Predictive analytics in an era of cascading risks
How effective data integration makes sense of complexity and takes risk management into a new era
Are your brokers costing too much?
When approaching last year’s renewals, a single factor helped us shortlist brokers: data
The risk maverick
Something of a divisive figure within the risk profession, one thing no-one can accuse Alex Sidorenko of is being apathetic about risk management
Reputations under siege
It has never been more difficult to manage reputational risk - is authenticated risk management the answer? asks Peter Gerken
The changemaker
Cristina Martinez Garcia of Sacyr is on a mission to put a positive spin on the risk manager role
The reinvention of supply chains
Near shoring and technology will shape the post-COVID supply chain, thinks AXA XL’s Pascal Matthey
ESG champion
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions’ Jonathan Rake explains why real innovation in insurance has never been more important
Time to pull together
Argo Group’s Adam Seager on the challenges of maintaining corporate cohesion in a more virtual working environment
Generation ERM
Part of the next generation of risk managers promoting the holistic approach, Sogefi Group’s Valentina Paduano believes it is time to rethink your methods
NDBI: Exposed and unprotected
Caroline Woolley explains why it’s much better to play ‘let’s pretend you have a loss’, than trying to deal with expectation gaps after an event
In support of a green economy
Europe and Asia suffer from some of the most severe fossil-fuel-company insured losses in the world, according to PCS data
Mental health: The next crisis
Tackling mental health is not just the right thing to do, but an essential exercise in risk management, according to International SOS’ Dr Rodrigo Rodriguez-Fernandez.
Time to revisit building codes?
Amidst the increasing frequency and intensity of natural catastrophes it is time to revisit the purpose and content of building codes, argues FM Global’s Michael Stuckings
Why current risk definitions just don’t work
‘Intangible’, ‘the effect of uncertainty on objectives’, ‘likelihood’, ‘probability’, ‘consequence’, and ‘impact’ – do these perennially-used terms add clarity to risk management practices or do they just dilute and confuse what we do? asks Tony Thornton, ERM and business continuity expert
Risk managers: 'Be brave' in 2019
At the close of 2018 and on the cusp of 2019, StrategicRISK asked Air Asia’s group head of risk and insurance, Suchitra Narayanan for her thoughts on the year gone and year ahead.
Mitigating the unintended consequences of technology
Leesa Soulodre, chief innovation officer, Inspirit IoT and adjunct faculty member at the Singapore Management University (SMU), argues more focus needs to be placed on establishing ethical principles and guidelines for the creation and deployment of new AI technologies.
Time to rebrand 'risk management' as 'certainty management'?
Here at StrategicRISK, we love a good debate about risk management. Risk thought leader, Tim Leech, has some interesting thoughts on the rebranding risk management for your Board. Tell us what you think in the comments section below!
Brain bias poses real risk
Dr Frank Ashe of Macquarie University believes too many strategic decisions are dominated by cognitive bias. He talks to StrategicRISK about the dangers risk managers need to be mindful of.
The Risk Manifesto
Australia Post’s head of risk - technology, cyber, fraud and head of risk - international (acting) group risk security & compliance, Australia Post, Tristan Bui tells us why agility in risk management is a must - not just a ‘nice to have’.
Don’t waste time managing risks
Stop, collaborate and listen, Hans Læssøe is back with a brand new lesson. In his latest opinion piece, the principal consultant at AKTUS and former risk manager of The LEGO Group explains why things will never be the same again for risk managers.
Time to kill 3LoD?
The Risk Culture Builder’s Horst Simon tells StrategicRISK why it might be time to #Kill3LoD in order to get to the next level of risk management.
Part one: Building resilience into modern organisations
In the first of our three-part series, risk specialist Warren Black tells us why risk management in the modern age is harder than at any other time in history.
To ERM or not to ERM?
Is ERM valuable? This was the theme of an online discussion hosted by Alex Sidorenko and Hans Læssøe. StrategicRISK caught up with both risk practitioners ahead of the debate to find out more.
The rise of Execution Risk Management and Decision Risk Management
Hans Læssøe, principal consultant at AKTUS and former risk manager of Lego tells StrategicRISK how the effect of an ever-increasing speed of change adds and alters the demands for risk management – both in terms of what to do, and how to do it.
Why do we need risk management?
Renowned author, blogger and retired chief audit executive, Norman Marks, questions why we need risk management and what role ERM plays.
Beware the Gray Rhino, not just the Black Swan
IKEA China’s risk management and compliance director and RIMS board member Robert Zhang spoke to StrategicRISK about the fast-changing risk landscape
There is a better way of managing risk
As we begin the countdown to our Risk Forum in Hong Kong on April 19, StrategicRISK spoke to ever-controversial risk commentator, Alex Sidorenko, to give us a little preview of what is to come next week