Click here for the Friday Reading Search, a searchable archive of reading and knowledge resources

Since March 2020, Airmic has been issuing Friday Reading, a curated series of readings and knowledge resources sent by email to Airmic members. The objective of Airmic Friday Reading was initially to keep members informed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, Airmic Friday Reading has evolved in scope to include content on a wide range of subjects with each email edition following a theme. This page is a searchable archive of all the readings and knowledge resources that have been shared.

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Airmic,Ventiv, 18th February 2022
Friday Reading Edition 94 (18th February 2022)
Risk professionals will need to educate themselves not only on how to approach data-driven decision making but also the technological developments that will increasingly dictate where data comes from and how it is used.
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Balkerne, 1st February 2022
Friday Reading Edition 94 (18th February 2022)
On weather modelling, the fundamental importance of data assimilation and quality control, the methodology of multi-model forecasting and achieving the most possible from computing resource. Balkerne speaks to James Burn, Meteorologist with the IBM Weather Company, on the growing importance of weather forecast and observation data to the property insurance industry.
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World Economic Forum, 19th January 2022
Friday Reading Edition 94 (18th February 2022)
Data can help us tackle our largest societal challenges, including climate change, inequality, global health and economic resilience. But how do we ensure that our global data systems are structured to capture the true value of data, not just the financial?
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McKinsey & Co, 26th April 2021
Friday Reading Edition 94 (18th February 2022)
Over the past decade, advances in digital analytics have transformed the way businesses operate. From marketing and pricing to customer service and manufacturing, advanced analytics is now central to many corporate functions. The same, however, cannot be said for strategy—at least not yet.
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TechTarget, 25th November 2020
Friday Reading Edition 94 (18th February 2022)
[Free to read upon sharing corporate email address] Instead of new augmented intelligence features and the acceleration of analytics embedded throughout workflows, the crucial importance of business intelligence became the dominant trend in analytics due to the pandemic. That, in turn, led to the acceleration of digital transformation, the larger phenomenon of organisations moving to digitise most phases of their operations.
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Aon
Friday Reading Edition 94 (18th February 2022)
In a world where companies have nearly unrestricted access to personal information, a new dilemma emerges: what separates right from wrong when it comes to collecting and using this data for commercial purposes? Individuals, companies, and policymakers are all working to understand what is ethical or not, what is legal or not, and how best we can progress when utilising innovative and disruptive technologies.
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