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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Control Risks, 24th July 2020
Border closures and the grounding of aircraft because of COVID-19 have posed a significant operational challenge for companies. This article assesses the outlook for operational disruption to business associated with COVID-19-linked restrictions on movement by air, both within and between states.
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McKinsey & Co, 20th July 2020
Friday Reading Edition 19 (31st July 2020)
The experience of cities suggests that successful reopening requires a conservative, staged approach, beginning at virus levels near zero – coupled with many safety measures for public transport.
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Airmic, 20th July 2020
Friday Reading Edition 18 (24th July 2020)
In the first of three episodes dedicated to Airmic's Top Risks & Megatrends 2020 report, host Richard Cutcher is joined by Julia Graham of Airmic, as well as Lucy Stanbrough of Willis Towers Watson, discusses the risk & megatrends map through the lens of geopolitics and how organisations should be thinking about the challenges concerning a volatile global environment.
McKinsey & Co, 14th July 2020
Friday Reading Edition 19 (31st July 2020)
The pandemic has intensified existing trends, widening the gap between those at the top and bottom of the power curve of economic profit. Will your strategy keep you ahead of the accelerated pace of change? What is the unique window of opportunity this great acceleration presents for your particular business?
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Hays, 13th July 2020
Friday Reading Edition 26 (18th September 2020)
Diversity and inclusion specialist Charlotte Sweeney OBE shares her advice to help leaders do just that, throughout each stage of the COVID-19 crisis and beyond. [podcast & article]
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McKinsey & Co, 10th July 2020
Friday Reading Edition 18 (24th July 2020)
Lord Darzi, surgeon and former health minister, discusses ways for healthcare systems, in the UK and elsewhere, to go from providing a “sickness service” to delivering a “health and well-being service.”
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Airmic,WTW, 8th July 2020
Friday Reading Edition 19 (31st July 2020)
On how economic issues sit within the larger landscape of geopolitics in the COVID-19 world.
ABI, 8th July 2020
[For ABI Members and Associate Members only.] Given the wide-ranging impacts of COVID-19 on General Insurance, senior colleagues in the ABI will provide an assessment of where ABI priorities identified at the start of the year for General Insurance now sit and where areas have been refocussed because of the impacts of COVID-19.
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McKinsey & Co, 26th June 2020
Friday Reading Edition 18 (24th July 2020)
Nine ways companies can get faster – the time for organisations to build for speed is now. This will be a long process and leaders must leap into the arena and recognise that many of their familiar organisation constructs will need to be reimagined.
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Airmic,Aon, 15th June 2020
Friday Reading Edition 13 (19th June 2020)
In this webinar from 15 June 2020, cyber experts from Aon will take you through how the cyber landscape has changed as a result of the pandemic, together with the key considerations for risk managers to create a data driven approach to managing cyber risk.
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