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 73 (3rd September 2021)
This Insights paper, arising from a roundtable co-organised with Allianz and supported by Herbert Smith Freehills, evaluates what businesses need to address and be aware of with regard to ESG issues. It also discusses how Allianz integrates ESG principles in its underwriting, with director and officer (D&O) liability as a focus.
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Friday Reading Edition 70 (13th August 2021)
As boards move beyond crisis management, survey results suggest that specific risks and organisational issues are increasingly top of mind. More often than their peers, directors on the most adaptable boards cite, as agenda items, issues such as technological trends and topics that are more cultural or organisational in nature, such as corporate social responsibility, and the company’s purpose.
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Purpose and the Pandemic Video
Friday Reading Edition 70 (13th August 2021)
Dr Sam Barrell, COO of the Francis Crick Institute, talks about the intense cultural impact of the Crick’s response to the pandemic (repurposing to be a testing, then a vaccination centre) and the importance of purpose. She shares some of the ethical challenges that the executive team faced and how they successfully managed the relationship with their board.
Friday Reading Edition 70 (13th August 2021)
Embedding company purpose requires businesses to think about every process their organisation operates—and accept that there will be trade-offs.
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Friday Reading Edition 69 (6th August 2021)
After consulting with top business leaders and legal, public-policy, and risk professionals at Fortune 500 companies in multiple industries, this article suggests that company leaders can use a five-pronged approach to managing geopolitical risk.
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Friday Reading Edition 68 (30th July 2021)
Published earlier this year in March – Airmic held a roundtable as part of its Leadership Group series on in partnership with Allianz, and supported by Herbert Smith Freehills, to evaluate what businesses need to address and be aware of with regard to environmental, social, governance (ESG) issues. This paper captures the discussions at that roundtable.
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Friday Reading Edition 67 (16th July 2021)
Over the course of 20 minutes Mattieu Rouot, CEO of MAXIS, and Mark Cook, Director at Willis Towers Watson, look back on more than a year of COVID-19 and the impact it has had on captive employee benefit programmes and what it might mean for the future.
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Friday Reading Edition 59 (21st May 2021)
A case study of making use of video and photo technology within your enterprise workflow, without any deviation by individuals in the field from the strict processes required to be entirely compliant.
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Friday Reading Edition 59 (21st May 2021)
Deploying AI at scale will remain problematic until companies engage in a fundamental change to become ‘responsible AI’-driven organisations. Companies should embrace this transformation as trust in AI systems will be the defining factor to determine who is worth doing business with. Here is a guide to help them achieve responsible AI at scale.
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Friday Reading Edition 55 (23rd April 2021)
[Free to use upon setting up an account] This toolkit is intended to guide you in your role as business owner, chief executive or manager seeking to protect your business against ethical lapses and in the journey to make your ethical values explicit. It suggests a simple, affordable approach to design an ethics framework.
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