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.
Friday Reading Edition 20 (7th August 2020)
Cécile Fresneau of QBE discusses the resilience in an unpredictable year with reference to both the survey report and the QBE Unpredictability Index, while James Owen of Control Risks examines the cyber risk landscape, emerging threats in the present environment and growing internet sovereignty.
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Friday Reading Edition 21 (14th August 2020)
Over the past few months, prompted by the pandemic situation, the shift towards digital business models has accelerated. Organisations need to tackle new types of reputational threats, and deal with many other challenges relating to intangible assets that were unimaginable a year ago.
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Friday Reading Edition 21 (14th August 2020)
Focuses on the vital role of digital in today’s businesses, many of which were already in the throes of digital transformations pre-pandemic. The first of five collections produced to accompany “Our New Future,” McKinsey and Co’s multimedia series.
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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.
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Friday Reading Edition 18 (24th July 2020)
Reflections from Alistair Cox, CEO of Hays, on navigating the business through the crisis so far, what has guided his decisions, the lessons he has learnt and how the global talent landscape is shaping up.
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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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Friday Reading Edition 14 (26th June 2020)
Best Buy’s former chairman and CEO reflects on a business’s reason for being by defining it around purpose and humanity, the link to competitive advantage, and managing shareholders and stakeholders during a crisis and beyond.
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Friday Reading Edition 18 (24th July 2020)
Employers will need to be sensitive to the challenges faced by their workers and will need to plan and organise their start-up to take into account human factors, which may predicate the potential for increased accidents and incidents.
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Friday Reading Edition 24 (4th September 2020)
Through a detailed analysis of 1,095 local labour markets across Europe, this paper examines the profound trends that have been playing out on the continent in recent years, including the growth of automation adoption, the increasing geographic concentration of employment, and the shifting mix of sectors and occupations.
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Friday Reading Edition 9 (22nd May 2020)
This article from McKinsey outlines four forces whose uncertain outcomes will shape the years to come, as well as the steps needed to build the return muscle to grapple with these forces in the post-COVID-19 world.
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