Boards focus on skills for technological innovation

Boards are seeking to acquire or boost their skills on corporate strategy (30 per cent) and technology implementation (31 per cent) – tied with industry specialisation – as emerging technologies pave a path to growth, according to the 2024 Read more

Organisations struggle to make ESG work strategically

Organisations are struggling to make ESG work strategically because they are often unable to move away from a compliance agenda, according to a report by the consultant KPMG.

While most companies recognise that ESG should be a valuable Read more

Businesses need advanced risk oversight

Businesses need advanced risk oversight as executives worry that the volume and complexity of risk is growing harder to manage, according to a survey by accountancy bodies AICPA and CIMAR.

Yet only about one in three businesses has Read more

Social housing boards must balance competing risks

The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) warned that social housing boards must balance competing risks and improve transparency in its ninth annual report.

It said that tenant and building safety were key responsibilities. That means boards need a Read more

Crisis shakes up strategic risk assumptions

Executives were revisiting the validity of strategic assumptions at the end of last year – a process that has accelerated because of the global pandemic, according to Gartner’s recent Emerging risks monitor report.

“Executives had been concerned with the Read more

Strategic innovation

Innovators are not necessarily well-known for their patience with risk managers. Creating something new and worrying about risk at the same time seem antithetical. Many take the same approach to strategic decision making with sometimes disastrous results.

Design thinking Read more