Click here for the Friday Reading Search, a searchable archive of reading and knowledge resources

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.

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Airmic, 2nd August 2020
Friday Reading Edition 20 (7th August 2020)
Cécile Fresneau of QBE discusses the resilience in an unpredictable year with reference to both the survey report and the QBE Unpredictability Index, while James Owen of Control Risks examines the cyber risk landscape, emerging threats in the present environment and growing internet sovereignty.
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Marsh
Friday Reading Edition 20 (7th August 2020)
Building preparedness for risks that may threaten national security, economic prosperity, and societal wellbeing is a critical function of government. This report suggests how to frame the evolving macro-level risk landscape in a way that helps allocate resources to the most material concerns.
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McKinsey & Co, 14th July 2020
Friday Reading Edition 19 (31st July 2020)
The pandemic has intensified existing trends, widening the gap between those at the top and bottom of the power curve of economic profit. Will your strategy keep you ahead of the accelerated pace of change? What is the unique window of opportunity this great acceleration presents for your particular business?
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McKinsey & Co, 26th June 2020
Friday Reading Edition 18 (24th July 2020)
Nine ways companies can get faster – the time for organisations to build for speed is now. This will be a long process and leaders must leap into the arena and recognise that many of their familiar organisation constructs will need to be reimagined.
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Airmic, 1st August 2020
Airmic’s annual survey report highlights the risks and megatrends impacting organisations and provides the context in which risk professionals are operating. The report walks us through how we can navigate five megatrends and their connectivity, and the effect of the pandemic on other risks.
Airmic, 7th June 2020
Robert Tailby, Principal Casualty Risk Engineer at Chubb Risk Engineering Services, discusses the people safety management systems we’ve all seen so visibly in our everyday lives since the beginning of lockdown, and how the crisis can be used to build resilience into our organisations going forward.
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Airmic , 14th March 2020
Friday Reading Edition 14 (26th June 2020)
This Airmic report investigates the origins and impact of over twenty major corporate crises of the last decade, which left their reputation in tatters and faced an uphill task in rebuilding their businesses
Airmic , 12th June 2020
Friday Reading Edition 13 (19th June 2020)
How are organisations transforming their business models to ensure resilience, value and growth in the digital age? This Airmic report highlights the business and organisational trade-offs that leaders and managers will have to grapple with while walking these revolutionary roads, as well as the implications of the trade-offs for risk management and governance.
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Airmic, 15th March 2020
Friday Reading Edition 12 (12th June 2020)
In this episode of Airmic Talks, host Richard Cutcher discusses the responses from large organisations to the COVID-19 crisis, and the role of the risk professional, with guests from Control Risks, International SOS and Gallaghers.
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McKinsey & Co, 2nd June 2020
Apart from the operational focus needed for the return to work, it is even more important that boards and management teams take a step back to reflect upon 15 themes, distilled from a group of leading nonexecutive chairs and directors at companies around the world who serve on the McKinsey Resilience Advisory Council.
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