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How should businesses support an ageing workforce?

As the UK’s workforce ages, businesses need to be aware of older employees’ needs and concerns.

The human side of global risks

Systems under stress, technology addiction, automation and workplace stress are all leading to an increasingly anxious, unhappy and lonely world.

Is technology responsible for a decline in human empathy?

As today’s economy grows more interconnected, a new global phenomenon has emerged: the growing number of people who feel disconnected and isolated.

Global risks take a high toll on mental health

The causes may be macro, but the effects are micro, and the warning signs are everywhere. In the United Kingdom, 90 percent of young employees say their mental health is adversely affected by the cost of living.

Building Cyber Resilience

Data breaches are increasing both in terms of size and frequency. Companies need to rethink their risk strategies, especially when it comes to cyber security and insurance protection. Cyber space has become a dangerous source of crime and disruption. Data breaches are increasing both in terms of size and frequency,

Cyber Security: The Triangulation of Strategic Decision-Making

A tool to help companies to define their unique approach when developing a digital adoption strategy. What are the priorities and trade-offs to make? Businesses must embrace digitalisation should they want to remain competitive, agile and efficient. However, as they strengthen their digital dependency, they also become increasingly vulnerable to

Uncharted territory: preparing for the unknown

With cyber risk is evolving so fast – and on such an unprecedented scale – how can businesses and individuals adequately prepare?

Navigating the Modern Cyber Risks Landscape

With cyber criminals becoming more sophisticated by the day, business must act now to shore up their defenses.

Growing Cyber Threat Demands a New Approach to Risk Management

For any company, recognizing risks and guarding against them is all part of running a successful business. And risks can change with the changing times. That’s clearly the case with one of the biggest and fastest-growing risks that businesses now face: cyber-related incidents. The World Economic Forum Global Risks

We are drifting deeper into global problems

Global risks are intensifying but the collective will to tackle them appears to be lacking. Instead, divisions are hardening.

Why globalisation 4.0 is on the top of the C-suite’s agenda

Globalisation 4.0 is our post-digital world and this demands new approaches to a range of issues, from technology to humanitarianism.

The Global Risks Report 2019

The 14th edition of the Global Risks Report identifies and discusses the many challenges and key risks presented in the year ahead.

Regular weekend work detrimental to health and wellbeing at small businesses

Extensive work commitments are having a detrimental impact on the health and wellbeing of small business owners in the U.K.

Cyber risks on significant rise around the world

The top risks for doing business in Europe, North America, East Asia and the Pacific are cyber attacks, according to the recently released “Regional Risks for Doing Business” published by the World Economic Forum.

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