Tag: crisis
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Time for crisis teams to test their plans – again
War in the Middle East: companies must thoroughly review their crisis and contingency plans and undertake exercises on a range of scenarios to test readiness.
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CBI in crisis – a governance failure – and why members shouldn’t walk away
As the CBI apparently nears meltdown, the Board must learn the lessons of this governance failure. And members should think twice about walking away as they consider their own corporate responsibility.
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Mega risks and disasters – a resilient company will get back on track faster
Businesses are increasingly expected to prepare for, and manage the effects of major disasters and they play an integral role in disaster risk mitigation and recovery. We produced a blog for 6-Group on what businesses should be doing to ensure they are resilient and therefore become partners of choice for their customers if disaster strikes. Photo,…
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The Presidents Club: the sound of British businessmen in five-speed reverse
20-20 hindsight is a great thing… Bear with me on this, because the fallout from this dinner is a great crisis, business ethics and risk management case study. Case study scenario: Bosses of company X are invited by supplier Y to a charity dinner as their guests where they will be treated to entertainment costing…
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Carillion, the government and when someone else’s problem becomes yours
The situation with Carillion seems to support the old adage: “If you owe the bank £100, it’s your problem, if you own the bank £10m it’s the bank’s problem.” In this case, last week’s theoretical, but realistic prospect of the melt-down of Carillion looked like the banks, bondholders and shareholders would have a problem, but…
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