Crisis Management

By Francois Lacas, Deputy COO at Yooz The global pandemic has dramatically refocused business priorities for businesses across the UK. In a life before Covid, businesses...

By Pedro B. Agua The approach to corporate risks is a growing concern within corporate governance. Excessive attention to compliance and too much focus on...

By Philippe Roy You’re thinking of using threats in a negotiation? Well, if you stick out your gun, you’d better be ready to shoot, otherwise...

By Karlton Jahmal Essential businesses made out pretty well during the pandemic. Nobody was buying out grocery stores during the 2001 or 2007 economic downturns....

The workplace isn't a perfect place. An accident can happen at any time. Unfortunately, personal injury at work isn't uncommon. Regardless of whether you run...

CEO of risk intelligence company Riskline, Kennet Nordlien, shares his first-hand experience of responding to businesses’ needs during the pandemic Duty of care is now...

Interview with Iain Wright, CFIRM, Outgoing Chair, Institute of Risk Management (IRM) Risk is a fact of life for businesses of all kinds – large...

By Leon Gauhman Leon Gauhman, chief strategy officer at digital product consultancy Elsewhen, explains how clients can sidestep endemic problems in the consultancy sector, vetting...

By Ben Hogg As parts of Europe plunged into a new wave of national lockdowns, the UK is seeing restrictions ease this month, with individuals...

At the beginning of 2020, many people found it difficult to adapt to some of the changes due to the pandemic. Everyone can tell...

Cloned firms have been plaguing financial companies across the UK for years and they can be a real nuisance. A cloned firm essentially ‘clones’ your...

Office safety and security should be important topics for any business, no matter its industry, size, and scope. Ensuring the workplace is up to...

By Beth Hampson March 2021 marked the one-year anniversary of lockdown in the UK, which, for many of us, also marks a year of working...

By Dr. Alessandro Lanteri Every day business news cover dozens of new products, technologies, consumer behaviours, and business models that could be critical to the...

By Adnan Bashir If you happen to be a marketing or communications practitioner, chances are that the first half of 2020 was a whirlwind time...

By Johannes Boroh There are many articles about business strategies on coping with the COVID-19 pandemic published in various journals, magazines, newspapers, and so forth....

By William S. Harvey, Hongqin Li, Oswald Jones and Jie Yang  How can leaders transform their SMEs from being unknown to being known and more...

After news of two approved coronavirus vaccines broke in late 2020, many were hopeful that the pandemic would soon be over. While countries around the...

As more British chains collapse at the hands of coronavirus, many people worry for the future of our high streets – especially the tens...

By Gilles Paché Since the spring of 2020, due to the spread of a new, very virulent coronavirus, the planet has been going through an...

As we’ve experienced during the Covid Pandemic, there’s a need for businesses to adapt to the new “normal” of operations. From stay-at-home orders frequently...

COVID-19 has irreparably changed the world as we know it. However, its impact is not clear, as it's still too early to get much...

By Dr Karen Delchet-Cochet Our current economic model, based on a linear approach and organized in a globalized and financialized manner, has reached its limits....

By Peter Lorange The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a worldwide recession of immense proportions.  Many companies are closing down, either for good or temporarily. ...

By David De Cremer The year 2020 will remain in our collective memory as a “crisis” year. It is the year where COVID-19 hit the...

By Howard Yu and Shan Jialu The coronavirus crisis has shown us that ‘future-ready’ companies bounce back first Warren Buffet wrote in his 2001 letter to shareholders...

In all honesty, Covid-19 has impacted the economy in ways that are both positive and negative. While there is a high unemployment rate, there...

If you have decided to put an addition onto your home, build your own home, or even extend or build onto your business, you’ll...

With our feet now firmly entrenched in the 21st century, we find ourselves living in a world of incredible technological accomplishments, ever-advancing medical discoveries,...

By David Kelly The current COVID-19 situation drastically changed the way we perceive a traditional workplace and remote working. Due to government-imposed restrictions and measurements,...

This year, the novel coronavirus has shattered economies around the globe. No country was left untouched, with almost a million deaths by mid-September. South...

How organizations are using data and AI to bring resilience and innovation to their operations By Anne-Laure Thieullent A few months ago, countries closed their borders,...

By Weixu Ding and Jianhua Mao The COVID-19 outbreak started at the end of 2019 that has hurt the world's economy, cultural exchanges, people's healthy...

As lockdowns are lifted and as people gradually return to work, there are many fears that need to be quelled in order for people...

By Yingying Zhang-Zhang and Arup Varma COVID-19 arrived with force and unpredictability, dragging sectors and industries to an unprecedented and uncertain situation. Companies and organizations reacted, but most...

By Paul Williamson The coronavirus pandemic has had an unforeseen effect on industries across Europe, pushing many businesses back to the starting line after being...

By Dr. Peter Lorange Over the last few months, almost all countries in the world have been faced with the challenge of how to handle...

By Svenja Falk, Frank Riemensperger and Serena Qiu Two months ahead of most other businesses in dealing with COVID-19, companies in China offer key insights...

By Gilles Paché The coronavirus crisis has highlighted main challenges in supply chain management. The European example shows that public hospitals have made effective logistical...

This year, humanity has faced an invisible enemy that has taken the lives of millions of people around the world. Because of a novel...

By Bhaskar Pant The novel coronavirus has affected countries around the globe. It is non-discriminatory in terms of who it hits. It is oblivious to...

By Victoria Usher C-suite leaders are balancing multiple priorities as they guide their companies through the uncertainties and challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. From implementing...

By Lucy Franklin What a difference a few weeks makes. When planning for the new financial year, I doubt anyone in Europe saw this coming...

By David De Cremer It is no secret that within the business world companies have a starting date, but also that one day they will...

By Kalyah Ford and Renée Karibi-Whyte As the COVID-19 pandemic impacts hundreds of thousands of lives and the very fabric of society globally, corporate philanthropy...

By Luis Ballesteros, Michael Useem, and Tyler Wry   Summary Natural disasters have been growing in their social impact in recent years, but humanitarian assistance has...

By Axelle Bagot and Houman Harouni One of the most common forms of leadership failure is treating a crisis like it is a disaster, and...

By Nikolaus Obwegeser, Noemie Tentillier, and Tomoko Yokoi Research has shown that our ability to deal with a crisis is heavily dependent on our perception...

By William S. Harvey Reputation is an invaluable intangible asset that impacts on how your staff, customers and other key stakeholders perceive your organisation. This...

In the last of 3 episodes on the theme of wellbeing in professional services we talk to Katherine Semler, Head of Leadership Development Iberia...