Since March 2020, Airmic has been issuing Friday Reading, a curated series of readings and knowledge resources sent by email to Airmic members. The objective of Airmic Friday Reading was initially to keep members informed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, Airmic Friday Reading has evolved in scope to include content on a wide range of subjects with each email edition following a theme. This page is a searchable archive of all the readings and knowledge resources that have been shared.
Friday Reading Edition 1 (27th March 2020)
How do corporate leaders, managers, and individual workers make this sudden shift to the new reality of remote work? This article offers guidance on how to work productively at home, manage virtual meetings, and lead teams through this time of crisis.
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Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID-19 mortality and healthcare demand Text
Friday Reading Edition 1 (27th March 2020)
Read the critical Imperial College paper analysing the likely impact of multiple public health measures on slowing and suppressing the spread of coronavirus, which has since informed the UK government’s strategy for dealing with the pandemic.
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Friday Reading Edition 1 (27th March 2020)
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, companies need a crisis response coordinated by top management that gives experts and managers the autonomy to implement creative, pragmatic solutions. Arising from hundreds of discussions conducted in the past few weeks, this article by McKinsey & Co looks at the efforts of companies now in the process of building what they term “COVID-19 nerve centers.”
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Friday Reading Edition 1 (27th March 2020)
Collaboration and longer relationships between customers, brokers and insurers will be key to developing new solutions. This Airmic report, produced in collaboration with KPMG, explores how collaboration will be central in transforming insurance for risks such as that relating to the Covid-19 situation.
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Roads to Resilience Text
Friday Reading Edition 1 (27th March 2020)
Airmic’s research report from 2014, conceived to help companies avoid corporate catastrophe by learning from those who are leading the way in creating resilient organisations, is more relevant than ever in the current context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Friday Reading Edition 1 (27th March 2020)
For six weeks in late 2006, the Financial Services Authority, the Bank of England and HM Treasury held a Market Wide Pandemic Exercise. Their report highlighted a number of key issues needing further work to strengthen the resilience of the financial sector against a pandemic and other long-duration event.
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