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 38 (11th December 2020)
Following on from the Green Finance Summit last month (October, 2020), this report by the Green Finance Institute presents the market insights and intended next steps of the Zero Carbon Heating Taskforce, an extension of the Green Finance Institute’s Coalition for the Energy Efficiency of Buildings (CEEB).
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Friday Reading Edition 38 (11th December 2020)
The time for stakeholder capitalism has come. There is growing evidence that companies that take a long-term view perform better – companies with strong ESG norms record higher performance and credit ratings.
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Friday Reading Edition 35 (20th November 2020)
American capitalism faces the question of the nature and degree of change necessary to ensure growth and prosperity for all in the 21st century. It has evolved time and again, and we may be poised for another such shift. Will the future of capitalism involve tweaks, reforms, or wholesale change?
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Friday Reading Edition 34 (13th November 2020)
An 80% take up of a COVID-19 vaccine could be necessary to protect the community. But given the scale and complexity of the task, vaccines will not be a silver bullet, according to this report.
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Friday Reading Edition 34 (13th November 2020)
On the Wellcome Trust’s work in supporting the development of new and improved vaccines, as well as enabling better and broader use of the vaccines that already exist.
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Friday Reading Edition 32 (30th October 2020)
Alison Moriarty, Fleet Risk Director at DRiiVE Consulting, and Mark Cartwright, Head of Commercial Vehicle Incident Prevention at Highways England, to discuss the evolving risks associated with motor fleets, how they can be addressed and why they need to be moved up the risk register.
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Friday Reading Edition 31 (23rd October 2020)
Brexit has disrupted both supply of and demand for talent in the United Kingdom. In the context of such a major shift, it is essential that companies revise their long-term approach to talent.
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Friday Reading Edition 31 (23rd October 2020)
The uncertainty with Brexit means that UK companies need to be even more prepared than their peers in other countries to embrace agility, strengthen their customer focus and look for new opportunities for value creation.
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Friday Reading Edition 29 (9th October 2020)
A survey by the IoD shows that the coronavirus looks set to have a lasting impact on office use –nearly three quarters of respondents said they would be keeping increased home-working after the pandemic.
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Friday Reading Edition 29 (9th October 2020)
McKinsey and Co studied more than 300 companies in three European countries and found that the best at co-creation excelled in three areas.
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