Airmic launches Roads to Repurposing

As the Airmic Conference 2021 kicks off in Brighton, the risk association has launched the fourth edition of its ‘Roads to’ thought leadership series, which focuses on the concept of corporate purpose within a shifting business and risk environment. Roads to Repurposing looks at what is being covered under the label ‘corporate purpose’ and ‘repurposing’, why […]

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Foster blame-free, bottom-up communication with RiskTalk

’Risk talk’ targets toxic cultures by fostering blame-free, bottom-up communication This year marked the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear accident and the eleventh anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster— vivid reminders of the complexity of managing corporate risks, responsibility, and values. Both companies had an official ‘Safety First’ principle, as have many other companies that […]

ValueS at Risk: Managing Risks in the Age of Corporate Purpose

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Anette and Kurt presented RiskTalk at the seminar series of ETH Risk Center to a group of academics and risk practitioners. The lively discussion included questions such as how RiskTalk is different from other incident reporting systems; comments its scalability and reflections on the possibilities to deploy it in crisis situations such as the current […]

When Every Employee Is a Risk Manager

When Every Employee Is a Risk Manager

Risk management needs to be part of the daily lives of all employees up, down, and across an organization. Here’s how the Swiss electricity network achieves that. Read full story

The Risks You Can’t Foresee

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No matter how good their risk management systems are, companies can’t plan for everything. Some risks are outside people’s realm of experience or so remote no one could have imagined them. Some result from a perfect storm of coinciding breakdowns, and some materialize very rapidly and on an enormous scale. These novel risks, as the authors call […]

Shifting with the sands: COVID-19 and changing values

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Anette’s last piece for Oxford Answers was referenced in the Financial Times. ‘In many ways, lockdown is intellectually easy . . . as a remedy it is clear-cut. The exit strategy is much less clear,’ she was quoted. This is her latest piece for us addressing that issue. In organizations (and societies) with competing cultural values when it comes […]

The switch: Negotiating between normality and crisis

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Low threshold, blame-free speak up tools – such as RiskTalk – are at the heart of responding to crises and the Problem of Switching between the normal and the crisis world. Our latest article was published in Oxford Answers today.

Oxford Answers Features RiskTalk co-founder Anette Mikes talking about Crisis Management

Particularly at times of unprecedented crises, leaders must listen intently to their employees and outsiders in order to learn fast and navigate uncertainty. In this presentation, Anette Mikes highlights the importance of processes and tools (such as RiskTalk) that leaders need in order to safeguard psychological safety and encourage people to speak up.