In 2017, the Oscars Best Picture incident highlighted the crucial importance of effective risk management. Learn the key lessons from this event and how they can help organizations avoid similar crises. Discover the strategies and tools that can help you identify and mitigate risks in...
Voice technology is everywhere. From Amazon, Apple, Google and others, Virtual Assistants (VAs) have found a way to sneak into our pockets, homes and workplaces. Designed initially as a domestic productivity tool, they enabled us to perform everyday tasks more quickly and with less attention....
Every risk manager who has exposure to top management will be familiar with this message: "Sorry, the CXO has asked to cancel your meeting or postpone to another date, as something more important has cropped up that requires their attention"...
2020 will for many, go down as one of the most volatile years in modern history. From environmental disasters to a global pandemic, our behaviours and habits had to quickly change and adapt to a new situation. Sectors saw themselves struggling to pull through the...
In 2004, Shell, the world-renowned oil and gas company found itself at the centre of a scandal that threatened its trustworthiness and its survival, after it came to light that Shell’s committee of managing directors had been overstating oil reserves in Securities and Exchange Commission...
A record-breaking blaze As the thick smoke filled the air, the people of Australia knew that the 2019 bushfire season was going to be very different from what they had experienced before. Years of community warnings and responses had prepared them for this to be a...
The Sting On the 3rd August 2020, Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, a 27-year-old Russian national, met with an old acquaintance at a bar in Reno. This wasn’t the first time the pair had seen each other. They had met before in 2016 but only had gotten back...
When the summer storms of 2019 swept across the Midlands and the North of England, the neighbours of the little town of Whaley Bridge never expected that in a couple of hours they would become characters to a Hollywood blockbuster-worthy near miss incident . After days...
This summer, Gartner released an advisory post to their Risk and Security clients with the headline, “Hire the Right Teachers for Better Security Awareness”. They noted both the importance of getting security awareness messaging right but also recognized that few employees felt this was being achieved....
From deadlines and pressure to triggering situations, stress has become a common aspect of people’s work life. In the right setting, stress can help us become more focused on tasks and meet new challenges. It is already known that stress influences memory processes and decision-making...
