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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Raconteur, 12th December 2019
Friday Reading Edition 14 (26th June 2020)
Companies must have a purpose beyond profits to compete in a modern business environment. This article explores how traditional institutions can retrofit a corporate purpose authentically.
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Airmic , 3rd June 2019
Friday Reading Edition 1 (27th March 2020)
Collaboration and longer relationships between customers, brokers and insurers will be key to developing new solutions. This Airmic report, produced in collaboration with KPMG, explores how collaboration will be central in transforming insurance for risks such as that relating to the Covid-19 situation.
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Airmic , 12th June 2018
Friday Reading Edition 2 (3rd April 2020)
Published in 2018, this thought leadership report from Airmic provides pragmatic advice for risk professionals and business leaders who want to ensure that resilience and digital transformation permeate their organisations to constantly protect brand and reputation.
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Airmic,QBE , 11th June 2018
Friday Reading Edition 92 (4th February 2022)
This guide is designed to equip the risk professional to support their organisation in understanding risk culture, the link between risk culture and risk appetite and how culture can be positively harnessed in these times of transformational change.
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Oliver Wyman, 1st January 2018
Friday Reading Edition 23 (28th August 2020)
Who really owns the risk management framework in a bank? Is it the Chief Risk Officer? Is it so fundamental that it is a shared responsibility among the whole executive or senior leadership team? This guidance puts flesh on the bones of the ‘three lines of defence’ skeleton. 
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Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors, 17th May 2016
Friday Reading Edition 92 (4th February 2022)
Organisational culture is an important area for boards to consider because it can be a key component of organisational failure. If the appropriate checks and balances are put in place, and there are cultural issues bubbling up in an organisation, then there are ways to identify and address these before they become a major front page story.
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McKinsey & Co, 1st December 2014
Friday Reading Edition 29 (9th October 2020)
McKinsey and Co studied more than 300 companies in three European countries and found that the best at co-creation excelled in three areas.
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Airmic, 28th January 2014
Friday Reading Edition 1 (27th March 2020)
Airmic’s research report from 2014, conceived to help companies avoid corporate catastrophe by learning from those who are leading the way in creating resilient organisations, is more relevant than ever in the current context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Harvard Business Review, 1st December 2002
Friday Reading Edition 74 (11th September 2021)
From the year after 9/11, but just as relevant today – In a time of extreme crisis, internal communications take precedence. Before any other constructive action can take place—whether it’s serving customers or reassuring investors—the morale of employees must be rebuilt.
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Sedgwick
Organisations are struggling to keep pace and will need to implement a variety of strategies to ensure they can successfully attract and retain the right people. The challenge facing employers is not to radically redesign workflows or business processes; rather, it’s to get back to the basics of the employee experience and adopt a people-first mentality.
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