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 86 (10th December 2021)
Look at the different stages of a transformation’s life cycle to understand where value is lost and what companies can do to preserve it. According to McKinsey’s analysis, three core actions of a transformation are especially predictive of value capture—and the companies with successful transformations are more likely than the rest to pursue the specific tactics that support them.
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Friday Reading Edition 86 (10th December 2021)
Risk management has a reputation for caution and deliberation, but not moving fast enough can be a risk in itself. The new space race taking place between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos provides Stephen with the illustration for this point. The two American billionaires are markedly different in the way they approach risk, both offering lessons for enterprise risk managers across sectors.
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Friday Reading Edition 86 (10th December 2021)
Look! Up in the sky! Not a bird … or a plane … it’s an eVTOL! An eVTOL (pronounced “ee-vee-tol”) is an electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft—and thousands of them could be flying above cities by 2030. Hear McKinsey experts and industry pioneers describe what’s coming in the world of “advanced air mobility” and how it could affect passengers, pilots, and our planet.
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Friday Reading Edition 86 (10th December 2021)
Collaboration between academia and industry during the pandemic has been unprecedented, and interviewees for this article praised the energy, enthusiasm and can-do attitude that they found in universities. But they also noted the limitations that virtual communication and lockdown restrictions have imposed on collaboration. They also urged more clarity on ownership of data and of intellectual property — areas where discussions with academic colleagues have been difficult.
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Friday Reading Edition 86 (10th December 2021)
Nature waded through the literature on the coronavirus — and summarised key papers as they appeared.
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Friday Reading Edition 86 (10th December 2021)
Dr Mark DeVolder, an award-winning change-management expert and public speaker, has empowered hundreds of organisations to adapt to change. He works with business leaders across the world to understand the process of adapting to continuous change through reinvention, innovation and anticipation.
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Friday Reading Edition 85 (3rd December 2021)
The UK must be better at anticipating, preparing for and responding to a range of challenging risk scenarios, including those which it has never experienced before. The report emphasises that the Government’s current strategy of centralised and opaque risk assessment and risk management, which fails to make adequate preparations, has left the UK vulnerable.
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Friday Reading Edition 85 (3rd December 2021)
[Free to read upon starting a free account] Interviewees of the report commented that their organisations had been targeted more in the last we months. However, organisations seem to be better prepared in preventing cyber attacks thanks to better cyber security systems in place, more staff dedicated to Cyber Resilience and more extensive training and exercising programmes.
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Friday Reading Edition 85 (10th December 2021)
Social media can not only introduce reputation risks but cybersecurity concerns as well. To address these threats, organisations should develop methods to screen for potential problems and effective social media policies that establish appropriate expectations for employees’ social media conduct.
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Friday Reading Edition 85 (3rd December 2021)
Companies are moving to a risk-based cybersecurity stance. The approach recognises that not all assets are created equal, nor can they be equally protected in today’s all-encompassing digital environment. Some assets are extraordinary—of critical importance to a company and its business. The digital business model is, in fact, entirely dependent on trust. If a company’s customer interface is not secure, the risk can become existential. Safeguarding such assets is the heart of an effective strategy to protect against cyberthreats.
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