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 76 (24th September 2021)
Produced in partnership with Aon Risk Solutions and Ventiv Technology – technological advances and the lowering cost of computing makes data available to businesses like never before. Successful businesses are using this data to review business models and drive transformation.
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Friday Reading Edition 16 (10th July 2020)
Evan Davis and guests debate whether a mix of talents in the workplace leads to better companies and translates into more profits.
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Friday Reading Edition 32 (30th October 2020)
As the proportion of partial and fully autonomous vehicles sharing the road with traditional vehicles increases, there will be a period of uncertainty over how insurance claims costs are likely to develop.
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Friday Reading Edition 70 (13th August 2021)
The results of this study suggest that firms with employees that maintain strong beliefs in the meaning of their work experience better performance.
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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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Friday Reading Edition 40 (8th January 2021)
[Purchase required] Dr. Keith Blacker and Dr. Patrick McConnell explains the concept of people risk and enables the reader to consider it within the context of their own organisation, flagging up the human factors that may not have been considered, and encourages managers and practitioners to take a more focused approach to people management.
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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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Roads to Resilience Text
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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Friday Reading Edition 65 (2nd July 2021)
Many people have been trying to understand the nature of hard-to-detect risks or uncertainties. After Donald Rumsfeld inadvertently coined “unknown unknowns”, people started using quadrants of knowledge (i.e., known known, known unknown, unknown known, and unknown unknown) to understand and explain the nature of risk. But this study reveals that many of them were not truly unidentifiable. This study develops and suggests a model to characterise risks, especially unidentified ones.
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Friday Reading Edition 122 (16th September 2022)
[Requires setting up a BBC account in the UK] When the US was fighting the Vietnam War which lasted into the 1970s, Australia and New Zealand sent troops to fight with them, the UK did not. Denis Healey, the UK’s Defence Secretary at the time, talks about why his government resisted American invitations to join the war.
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