All Best Practice articles – Page 3

  • Features

    Corporate disclosure and governance in Russia

    2006-06-14T00:00:00Z

    Alexander Livshitz describes how Russian companies are introducing disclosure and governance to provide confidence to the international financial community

  • Features

    GETTING THE RIGHT SUPPORT

    2006-05-24T00:00:00Z

    Based on experiences at Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, Mark Collingwood, Stephanie Gardner and Catherine Harley look at some of the risk management support tools available to local authorities

  • Features

    UK Government reconsiders approach

    2006-05-24T00:00:00Z

    How well is the UK government managing risk? A House of Lords enquiry is seeking to find out Peter Joy reports.

  • Features

    ADDING VALUE?

    2006-05-24T00:00:00Z

    Lynn Drennan, Rob Webb and Alasdair Marshall look at how senior executives and institutional investors regard risk management and corporate governance

  • Features

    THE IMPLICATIONS OF OPERATIONAL RISK

    2006-05-23T00:00:00Z

    Alan Waring and Steve Tunstall highlight the need for a culture of responsible risk-taking

  • Features

    Mapping the risk

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Last month saw the publication of a new corporate governance risk map Sue Copeman writes.

  • Features

    From great expectations to ..?

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    What the Dickens happened to the OFR? asks Tim Hopkirk

  • Features

    The less than holy trinity of executive power

    2005-12-21T00:00:00Z

    Lee Coppack discusses why concentrating too much power in the hands of one person can be dangerous

  • Features

    A corporate focus on injury management

    2005-12-21T00:00:00Z

    The rise in use of injury management services draws attention to the way in which injury management is being deployed Emma Tyler asks whether it is being used to its fullest advantage.

  • Features

    Comfort blanket or bed of nails?

    2005-12-21T00:00:00Z

    Guy Williams discusses the implications of the UK Company Law Reform Bill

  • Features

    Viewpoint Management - who managers the managers?

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    It is all about debt and return on equity In reality, these are the only two parameters that count. The way they are managed can make a good company great or condemn it to oblivion, says Adrian Clemen

  • Features

    Shift up a gear

    2005-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Effective risk management is not an option in the 21st century, say Norman Sinclair and Man Cheung Governance and organisational effectiveness require it.

  • Features

    Fraud: The great unmanaged risk?

    2005-11-14T00:00:00Z

    Allan McDonagh discusses why the tone at the top is key to effective fraud prevention

  • Analysis

    ERM increasing - but way to go!

    2005-10-04T00:00:00Z

    An overwhelming majority of companies have started to use enterprise risk management (ERM) as a strategic business tool, but most firms say they still have a long way to go, according to a report rele

  • Features

    Risk management and corporate governance

    2005-10-04T00:00:00Z

    Corporate governance initiatives in Europe are changing the risk management role according to a recent Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) survey

  • Features

    Trying to do things better

    2005-10-04T00:00:00Z

    Sukhdev Bal ponders why companies that do not have to comply with SOX are nevertheless striving to improve their internal control systems

  • Roundtables

    MOSCOW: New horizons

    2005-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Strategic Risk invited a number of key practitioners within the Russian risk management community to discuss current risk management issues affecting the region

  • Features

    Opportunity knocks for risk managers

    2005-04-20T00:00:00Z

    David Phillips and David Bishop say that risk managers could have a pivotal role in developing the Operating and Financial Review

  • Features

    Securing the future

    2005-04-20T00:00:00Z

    On 7 March the UK Government announced its new sustainable development strategy - Securing the Future With risk managers increasingly focusing on reputational issues, good sustainability management ca

  • Features

    Old and dynamic?

    2005-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Your HR department may be looking to recruit a workforce of young go-getters, but forthcoming equal treatment regulations will ban age discrimination Marian Bloodworth discusses what this means for UK