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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Friday Reading Edition 234 (31st January 2024)
This updated guide – just released last month – sets out an introduction to the concept of risk appetite, with the intention of providing individuals, who may not be risk management specialists, with a high-level overview of what risk appetite is, why it is important, and how risk appetite can be used to support decision-making.
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Friday Reading Edition 231 (20th December 2024)
If you are an executive or leader and truly want to minimise your organisation’s exposure to risk, you have to do so with and through your people. Risk management has become increasingly cumbersome, costly and a distraction for many organisations, but once you understand that people are at the centre of all risk, you can move forward to empower your greatest risk management asset – your people.
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Friday Reading Edition 227 (22nd November 2024)
Rather than threaten their jobs, AI can help equip risk professionals to bring greater value to their organisations as strategic enablers. And as fears of ethical and other risks around AI grow, it will reinforce the need for human decision making and oversight, a role which risk professionals are well positioned to take up.
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Friday Reading Edition 217 (13th September 2024)
Examines risk cultures in the banking industry and how financial institutions can learn from the failures of the likes of Credit Suisse and SVB.
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Friday Reading Edition 203 (7th June 2024)
Revised and updated – risk-taking is fundamental to the success of any organisation. Leaders must decide the extent to which risk needs to be sought, accepted, addressed or avoided. Their approach will determine how risks are managed across their organisation.
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Friday Reading Edition 184 (22nd December 2023)
Reed Hastings, Netflix Chairman and CEO, shares the secrets that have revolutionised the entertainment and tech industries. With INSEAD business school professor Erin Meyer, he will explore his leadership philosophy.
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Friday Reading Edition 184 (22nd December 2023)
Rethink how your organisation creates, delivers, and captures value--or risk becoming irrelevant. If you read nothing else on business model innovation, read these 10 articles.
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Friday Reading Edition 163 (28th July 2023)
A continued string of corporate failures reminds us how a strong risk culture, consciously built and nurtured by the board, senior and middle management is essential as the best means of avoiding them. This report aims to empower the risk and accountancy professions to improve their risk cultures and lead their organisations in a new age of risk.
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Friday Reading Edition 163 (28th July 2023)
Previous studies suggest that the risk community continues to struggle with reputational risk and with reputation as an intangible asset. This report puts forward frameworks for risk professionals to work strategically with others within their organisations to measure and tackle reputational risks.
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Friday Reading Edition 147 (31st March 2023)
With great power comes great responsibility. Organisations can mitigate the risks of applying artificial intelligence and advanced analytics by embracing three principles.
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