Predictably vulnerable

Predictably vulnerable

Why are seemingly sound companies predictably vulnerable? They are led by intelligent, well-meaning leaders and often have large, diligent risk management teams – and yet still fail. Anthony Fitzsimmons and Derek Atkins have been asking themselves this question for years. An important breakthrough came when they were part of the Cass Business School team that…

Why are seemingly sound companies predictably vulnerable? They are led by intelligent, well-meaning leaders and often have large, diligent risk management teams – and yet still fail.

Anthony Fitzsimmons and Derek Atkins have been asking themselves this question for years. An important breakthrough came when they were part of the Cass Business School team that produced Roads to ruin, a seminal report commissioned by Airmic’s John Hurrell.

That project sparked a series of further collaborations that led to their book Rethinking reputational risk and to this recent feature published in the Summer 2017 edition of Enterprise Risk.

Read the full article here.





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