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Some years ago, I did a personality test that assigns colours to your behaviours. This particular test showed the difference between how… More

1 June 2018

Legislation looks set to come into force in 2020 which will compel the UK's largest companies to publish and justify the pay ratios between their CEOs and workers. Its introduction was first… More

Optimists were given reason to celebrate recently when reported rates of UK productivity in 2017 showed some improvement after years in the doldrums, but economists then seemingly spoiled the party by warning… More

The leading cyber threats to UK businesses last year were ransomware attacks, data breaches, supply chain threats and fake news stories, according to the 2017/18 report from the National Cyber Security Centre… More

Discussions at an IRM infrastructure special interest group meeting have highlighted hot topics for the sector, including embedding risk management across an organisation, dealing with uncertainty and differing levels of complexity, and… More

The IRM has published a guide to help risk managers navigate the newly revised ISO 31000 standard –A risk practitioner’s guide to ISO 31000: 2018. The overhaul of the standard was released at… More

Organisations and individuals could do more to improve their gender diversity – and in doing so potentially benefit their business – according to attendees at the IRM’s ‘Women in risk’ roundtable event… More

The Infrastructure SIG recently organised a meeting at the Shard in London, for over 35 risk professionals who work primarily in major rail, aviation, public utility and road programmes to discuss key… More

The IRM has announced that Socrates Coudounaris, CFIRM will step up from his position of deputy chair of the board when the current chair, Nicola Crawford, CFIRM, steps down in early May,… More

In the IRM’s Risk agenda 2025 survey, there were two seemingly incompatible findings – that the number of risk managers is expected to go up, but also that the increased use of… More