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In with the old # 2: evolution of supply chain risk and resilience

Snapshot: The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the fragilities inherent to many organisations’ supply chain strategies, with disruption...

In with the old: pandemic risk and resilience

Snapshot: As a new virus, there remain many scientific and medical uncertainties associated with Covid-19 which will continue to...

What we we wish we knew about third party seller / distributor / agent auditing before we started

With 80% of FCPA cases in 2019 involving third parties, it is widely recognised that an effective third party monitoring programme is an...

Will 2019 prove to be a paradigm shift in sustainability / ESG, or another false dawn?

A series of notable events and developments during the past 12 months is providing cause for optimism around the sustainability / ESG...

The rise and risk of stakeholders

The pursuit of shareholder returns as the ultimate raison d'etre for a company to exist is increasingly being challenged. The recent...

Impact Tolerance: easier said than done

There has been a lot of debate recently about Impact Tolerance. A friend of mine was baffled by the fuss – surely it is simple? The inner...

16 sources of inefficiency in SOX / JSOX programmes

Increasingly management are being challenged to take a critical look at the way SOX / JSOX testing is performed and managed in their...

Emerging Risks: Emerging Risk Management

In this blog we discuss several questions we commonly hear from clients on how to practically approach emerging risk management,...