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Risk professionals should move to fill the understanding gap around disruptive technologies

April 24, 2017 Angela Stelmakowich

PHILADELPHIA – Risk managers will need to take the lead in organizational efforts to address complex challenges and opportunities in an environment that increasingly features rapidly advancing disruptive technology risks, suggests a joint report from broker and risk advisor Marsh

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Claims industry improving on creation of succession plans, but planning should be for all industry positions: Cook

January 30, 2017 Jason Contant, Online Editor

The claims industry is doing a much better job of developing leaders and creating succession plans than it has in the past, Phil Cook, CEO of Omega Insurance Holdings Inc., said during the CICMA/CIAA Ontario Chapters’ 50th Annual Joint Conference

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Canadian business leadership critical to reducing climate and other natural disaster risks, PwC Canada says

October 7, 2016 by Canadian Underwriter

Canadian business leadership is crucial to reducing the risks from climate and other natural disasters, PwC Canada said on Friday. That day, PwC convened a group of private and public sector leaders to discuss the case for Canadian businesses to

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Resiliency plans increasingly important, plans will never be perfect

September 13, 2016 by Angela Stelmakowich

CALGARY — Resiliency plans are unlikely to ever be perfect, but they are an increasingly important element of an organization’s response to crises, two speakers who as individuals and members of their companies were intimately affected by the 9/11 terror

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60% of digital businesses will suffer major service failures by 2020 due to inability to manage digital risk: Gartner

June 6, 2016 by Canadian Underwriter

Sixty per cent of digital businesses will suffer major service failures by 2020 due to the inability of IT security teams to manage digital risk, according to a special report from Gartner, Inc., an information technology research and advisory company.