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Risk management
Resources to help manage risk in your organisation
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Articles and features
Coping with coronavirus
Why it’s imperative for businesses to have robust plans in place to deal with the outbreak and mitigate disaster.
The Brydon review
Exploring what the Brydon review means for the profession.
Wising up to climate change
Key XR activist shares his thoughts on climate change.
Reports
Risk management: mindfulness and clumsy solutions
Our helps managers in all functions who are being asked to pay more attention to the challenges of uncertainty.
Special report: Risk management
An update on the basics of risk, with a look at issues in risk management today and a summary of the best resources.
Webinars and recordings
Webinar - Does effective risk management require clumsy solutions
Professor Philip Linsley discusses how companies can address the challenges presented by uncertainty.
Templates
Template: risk assessment framework
A risk assessment framework that allows organisations to capture their key risks. It is designed to be a working document that is part of the overall business performance management system.
ebooks
Information security risk management for ISO 27001/ISO 27002 (3rd edition)
This book draws on emerging national and international best practice around risk management and has been written to provide detailed and practical guidance to information security and risk management teams on how to develop and implement a risk assessment and risk management process that will be in line with the requirements of ISO 27001.
Practice aid: Enterprise Risk Management: Guidance For Practical Implementation and Assessment
This publication gives guidance for anyone responsible for or advising on an enterprise risk management process (ERM), This resource will help ensure the ERM process is well designed, well executed, and ultimately successful. Provides illustrative examples, best practices, and guidance for implementing or assessing an enterprise risk management process.
Financial risk manager handbook
For candidates studying for the Global Association of Risk Professionals annual FRM exams
Managing business risk: a practical guide to protecting your business
A guide to all major topics of concern for risk management.
Industry press
Data ethics: risk management for the algorithmic age
The article discusses the risks posed by big data analytics to businesses. Topics covered include how big data analytics can harm individuals in ways such as privacy invasion, manipulation and bias, the threats that it can bring to individual consumers and to the reputation and brand of the companies, and the need for companies to educate themselves about human rights frameworks and other ethical philosophies when managing big data risks.
Diversification - is it sufficient for effective portfolio risk management?
The article explores whether diversification is enough for effective portfolio risk management in practice. Topics include diversifying one's investments doesn't increase the level of expected returns, but rather it provides a more acceptable actual outcome.
Managing 21st century political risk
This article states that despite political risks coming from a wide array of potential threats , effective risk management is still fairly straightforward. The authors outline what each of four competencies (understanding risk; analyzing risk; mitigating risk; responding to crises) entail, providing questions that every organization can ask to identify gaps, along with case studies that illustrate how companies have successfully addressed real-world political threats.
Maximise productivity and minimise risk with mobile management
As business becomes increasingly mobile, we look at the latest trends in mobile device management. The article focuses on analysis of approaches regarding administration of mobile device management with enterprise mobility management (EMM).