Case Study: Cognitive Warfare and Corporate Sabotage – The OrionTech Disinformation Crisis
OrionTech, a tech firm, was targeted by a deepfake-driven disinformation campaign ahead of a major product launch. The attack damaged its reputation and finances, exposing weaknesses in cognitive risk preparedness. A cross-functional crisis response restored trust, highlighting the need for proactive cognitive risk management in today’s volatile information landscape.
Digital Lords and the New Geopolitics: Understanding Techno-feudalism Through a Risk Lens
Techno-feudalism describes a shift from market capitalism to digital hierarchies dominated by tech giants controlling data, platforms, and influence. This article explores its geopolitical impact and outlines critical risks—like regulatory capture, data dependency, and disinformation—that professionals must monitor to safeguard sovereignty, resilience, and democratic governance in a digitally entrenched world.
Case Study: From Marketplace to Monarchy – Amazon and the Risks of Techno-feudalism
Amazon exemplifies techno-feudalism through its monopolistic control of platforms, data, and cloud infrastructure. The case study highlights risks such as platform dependency, algorithmic opacity, and data exploitation. It urges risk professionals to assess digital reliance, ensure data governance, and prepare for systemic disruptions or regulatory backlash in a digitally dominated economy.
Resilience in a Fractured World: The Fundamentals of Geopolitical Resilience for Risk Professionals
Geopolitical resilience enables organisations to anticipate, adapt to, and recover from disruptions like conflicts, sanctions, or supply chain shocks. Key strategies include proactive risk assessment, scenario planning, diversification, and collaborative efforts. By integrating issues-led and impact-led approaches, leveraging technology, and fostering agility, businesses transform risks into opportunities, ensuring long-term competitiveness in a volatile world.
Case Study: Škoda Auto’s Geopolitical Resilience Strategy in a Shifting European Market
Škoda Auto enhanced its geopolitical resilience by diversifying suppliers, implementing scenario planning, leveraging collaborative partnerships, and adopting AI-driven supply chain monitoring. These strategies enabled the company to maintain production, grow EV sales, and lower risk ratings, demonstrating how proactive resilience measures can secure business continuity and competitive advantage amid global disruptions.
Risk Professionals as Futurists: Shaping Tomorrow’s Uncertainty Today
The article explores how risk professionals can adopt futurist approaches, such as scenario planning and futures thinking, to anticipate and manage uncertainty. By integrating risk management with strategy, leveraging technology, and embracing behavioural insights, risk professionals can transform risk from a defensive function into a driver of innovation and organisational resilience.
Case Study: Futurist Risk Management at ApexTech Solutions
ApexTech Solutions adopted a futurist approach to risk management by using scenario planning, predictive analytics, and behavioural risk training. This proactive strategy enabled the company to anticipate regulatory changes, mitigate cyber threats, and seize market opportunities, transforming risk management into a source of resilience, agility, and competitive advantage.
Bridging Perception and Practice: Enhancing Risk Facilitation Through Collaborative Strategies
This article explores how perception shapes risk management, highlighting the importance of understanding cognitive biases, fostering collaboration, and leveraging strengths-based and structured approaches. It emphasises embedding risk awareness in organisational culture, using technology, and overcoming barriers, empowering risk facilitators to transform perception into a strategic asset for effective risk management.
Case Study: Transforming Risk Culture at City General Hospital
City General Hospital reduced medication errors by 39% through collaborative workshops, co-designed protocols, gamified microlearning, and AI-powered monitoring. By addressing staff perceptions and fostering psychological safety, the hospital transformed its risk culture, improved protocol compliance, and demonstrated the value of perception-aware, strengths-based risk management in healthcare.
Perception is Power: How Risk Owners and Champions can transform Decision-Making and Resource Allocation
The article explores how risk perception, shaped by experience, biases, and culture, influences decision-making and resource allocation for risk owners and champions. It offers strategies to align perceptions, overcome biases, and foster a strong risk culture, ultimately enabling organisations to manage uncertainty more effectively and achieve their strategic objectives.