Navigating Rapid Technological Advancements: Building Resilience in the Age of AI and Automation
Rapid technological advancements, particularly in AI and automation, are reshaping industries, offering opportunities and challenges. These technologies enhance resilience through predictive capabilities, task automation, and improved decision-making. However, they also present workforce displacement, cybersecurity risks, and ethical dilemmas. Organisations must adopt proactive strategies, focusing on digital transformation, continuous learning, human-machine collaboration, cybersecurity, and ethical governance to thrive in this dynamic environment.
Resilience: The Art of Organisational Shapeshifting
Fortify your organisation against the unexpected with operational resilience. It's the ability to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and adapt to disruptions whilst maintaining critical functions. This proactive approach embeds resilience into daily operations and culture, focusing on protecting key services, assessing risks, testing scenarios, leveraging technology, and continuous improvement. Board involvement and regulatory focus underscore its strategic importance.
From Digital Defenders to Endangered Species: The Cybersecurity Talent Crisis
The cybersecurity talent crisis looms large, with a global shortage of 3.4 million professionals. As threats multiply, SMBs struggle and burnout spreads. AI offers hope, but human expertise remains crucial. To bridge the gap, we must revolutionise education, embrace diversity, upskill IT pros, foster collaboration, and rebrand cybersecurity as an exciting career.
Case Study: Building Resilience in the Face of Adversity – The Horn of Africa Experience
Amidst adversity, Horn of Africa communities showcase remarkable resilience. Leveraging indigenous wisdom, social bonds, and adaptive strategies, they've crafted innovative solutions to climate change, conflict, and food insecurity. Their journey illuminates the power of local knowledge and collective action, offering a blueprint for resilience-building worldwide.
Navigating the Maze with unshakeable Business Foundations
Navigating today's turbulent business landscape demands more than survival—it requires operational resilience. This strategic approach transforms organisations into mighty oaks, bending without breaking amidst constant disruption. By identifying critical services, mapping dependencies, and fostering a culture of adaptability, businesses can build unshakeable foundations for long-term success and competitive advantage
Emotion in Strategic Management: A Review and Future Research Agenda
Emotion in strategic management has attracted increasing scholarly interest during the past twenty-five years. Researchers have demonstrated the nature and significance of emotion in strategic management from a broad range of perspectives across different levels of analysis. Given the expanding research on the topic, the time is ripe to synthesize this diverse and multifaceted body of knowledge.
Evaluating and Establishing Baseline Security Requirements in Cloud Computing: An Enterprise Risk Management Approach
In today's digital age, businesses use cloud services to boost their operations exponentially. While this trend presents excellent potential, it is marred by significant concerns over the safety of data stored in the cloud. As the demand for cloud computing increases, businesses face issues ranging from data breaches and provider security to service availability and regulatory compliance.
Emerging Risks Key Findings – 2024 Survey
The 17th Survey of Emerging Risks compiles trends about risks that extend longer than a time horizon used for the normal planning cycle, using the foresight of risk managers to identify relative changes to responses across consistent topics. It is sponsored by the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) and the Society of Actuaries (SOA). Questions are both quantitative and qualitative, maintaining response options and showing how risk management practices are evolving. The survey results, especially the comments, provide risk managers a way to network with peers.
Allianz Risk Barometer – Major Business Risks 2024
The top risks in this year’s Allianz Risk Barometer reflect the big issues
facing companies right now – digitalization, climate change and an uncertain geopolitical environment.
Guide: Risk and Managing Risk Explained
Risk-taking is fundamental to the success of any organisation. The leaders of an organisation must decide the extent to which risk needs to be sought, accepted, addressed or avoided, and their approach to this will determine how risks are managed across their organisation.