Weathering the storm: Navigating through Egypt’s changing business environment
Read how companies deal with the implications and risks with operating in post-Arab Spring Egypt, how they manage operations, and where they see things going.
View ArticleBusiness-not-as-usual: Tackling the impact of climate change on supply chain...
While climate change and increasing temperatures now seem inevitable, there are high levels of uncertainty about the manifestations and magnitude of their impact. What is certain, though, is that...
View ArticleHarnessing financial innovation to strengthen disaster resilience
Capital markets’ innovative alternative risk transfer mechanisms to protect businesses and communities is critical to combat natural and man-made disaster costs.
View ArticlePicking up after Sandy: Resilience in the eye of the storm
Following Hurricane Sandy's impact, how can communities develop a comprehensive and practical risk resilience programme for disaster preparation and planning?
View ArticleKeeping the lights on: interview with Steve Holliday, Chief Executive Officer...
How are global electric utility companies - especially those outside the US without significant natural gas resources - finding the right balance between coal and other sources?
View ArticleBouncing back: Two Japanese corporations’ road to resilience
Discover how two companies developed resilience by embracing bold leadership, sound alliances, innovation and agility, and by convincing stakeholders that change is needed.
View ArticleResilience: What it is and why it's needed
To be risk-resilient, countries must adapt to changing contexts, withstand sudden shocks and recover to a desired equilibrium -- all while preserving continuity operations.
View ArticleResilience practices: One-year follow-up analysis on Global Risks 2012 cases
What strategies are being employed to combat risks of widespread social instability, weakened societal safeguards, and the online security risks of increasingly connected systems?
View ArticleCreating value through responsible investment: Are the hard and lean going soft?
The environmental, social and governance (ESG) focus is increasing as the basic business model of the Private Equity (PE) industry becomes more long-term, with more than 90% of the respondents in a...
View ArticleA new framework for disaster reduction
PwC and the UNISDR are creating a framework for disaster reduction to improve disaster resilience and provide economic, social and environmental benefits.
View ArticleResilience and integrity
In an interdependent world, integrity and trust are indispensable to an organisation’s resilience. This PwC series of thought-provoking articles explains why.
View ArticleAttitudes to internal control from around the world: China
China’s unique business culture and fast-growing economy pose significant challenges to implementing COSO’s internal control framework, according to author James Chang.
View ArticleBuilding agility and empowerment into internal control
The rapid escalation and shaky response to Europe’s horsemeat scandal underscore the need for a broader, more agile approach to internal controls, says author Catherine Jourdan.
View ArticleDisaster Risk Management, Business Continuity & Public-Private Collaboration:...
How to create risk-resilient societies? By building a collaborative, global, public-private-NGO platform to reduce disaster risk, as this UNISDR-PwC paper explains.
View ArticleResilience and integrity: Fundamental to system integrity
What do “too big to fail,” resilience and integrity have to do with each other? Everything, argues Boston College’s Sandra Waddock, in this provocative article.
View ArticlePwC and the MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation: Making the right risk...
This report by PwC and MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation analyses supply chain & risk management approaches of companies facing high risks: raw material price & currency fluctuation, market...
View ArticleBuilding on common ground
Governments and businesses are seeing not only how much they need each other, but how much all parties can benefit through collaboration, says author Craig Scalise.
View ArticleBeautiful Resilience
Today’s focus on efficiency and cost should not blind us to the value of beauty in promoting resilience, argues Dr. Paul Shrivastava of Concordia University.
View ArticlePlanetary Resilience
Katrin Muff of the Business School Lausanne argues that businesses should put the Earth’s resilience before their own, and calls out visionary leaders who have done so.
View ArticlePutting resilience on the board agenda
Just as more stakeholders are paying attention to resilience, so should boards of directors, argues PwC’s Catherine Bromilow, who offers several key prescriptions.
View ArticleBouncing back with an ethically sound CEO apology
When a firm has been involved in an unethical incident, the CEO response matters. To restore trust, apologies must be ethically sound, argues Prof. Daryl Koehn.
View ArticleExamining the leadership, trust, organisational performance and societal...
There’s a key link between leadership and trust, & economic and societal value. The World Economic Forum, aided by PwC, discusses why trust is such a powerful asset today.
View ArticleThe Emergence of Novel Pathogens: The Greatest Risk of Hubris in Human Health
Antimicrobial resistance threatens human health worldwide. While governments, industry and providers are addressing it, their efforts must be coordinated, argues the author.
View ArticleStanding Together: A Coordinated Response to Drug Resistance and Other Novel...
The challenge of becoming resilient in the face of growing antimicrobial resistance is taking on increased urgency. This PwC article offers a clear plan for action.
View ArticleHow the strongest supply chains protect what customers cherish most
When a disruption hits your supply chain, will you be able to keep giving customers what they most value? Here are four keys to building your supply chain resilience.
View ArticleHow can resilience prepare companies for environmental and social change?
How to address today’s social and environmental risks within a traditional ERM approach? Focusing on business resilience can help you optimise both process and outcome.
View ArticleHow to Make Your Supply Chain More Resilient: A Conversation with PwC’s...
Between natural disasters, the financial crisis, and macroeconomic vulnerabilities, companies’ supply chains have been rocked by several disruptions of late. And that trend is likely to continue, says...
View ArticleContaining and adapting to digital wildfires
Hyperconnectivity has given unprecedented speed and reach to the dissemination of ideas, information, and opinions. This phenomenon continues to open new avenues for creativity and free speech on the...
View ArticleDeciding by impact: Balancing economic and environmental resilience
Environmental risks can slip down the strategic and public policymaking agenda when they come up against seemingly more pressing economic priorities, even though this could store up trouble for the...
View ArticleAre you drawing the most innovation from your technology?
While 81% of CEOs in our recent survey see tech innovations as a top driver of business change, only a third as many (27%) had actually implemented a change programme. Why?
View ArticleFit for the future. But are you truly resilient?
Will the global growth CEOs foresee translate to their companies? The key may be in how resilient their practices are, from innovation to talent to consumer strategies.
View ArticleHow do global leaders bolster risk resilience? Ten best practices.
Whether the risks are economic, environmental, catastrophic or systemic, we all have much to gain by examining some of the best resilience practices employed by public, private and NGO sectors. The...
View ArticleThe R!SE Initiative: Disaster Risk-Sensitive Investments
Instead of creating shared risks, public and private sector investment should focus on creating shared value. That’s why PwC and UNISDR started the R!SE Initiative.
View ArticleAre you ready for tomorrow’s workforce?
It’s harder than ever for CEOs to find and keep the right people in the right place at the right time. Yet only 6 in 10 have taken tangible steps in the war for tomorrow’s talent.
View ArticleThe promise, peril and real payback of Big Data
Companies are grappling with the multitude of privacy regulations, self-regulation policies, and consumer expectations placed on them to protect consumer data privacy. Mishandling your consumers’...
View ArticleThe changing consumer: An ever-more elusive target
A company’s existence depends on them: but how deeply do CEOs understand the shifting priorities and perceptions of their customers, across cultures and geographies?
View ArticleSocial listening: How market sensing trumps market research
Customers don’t always tell you what they really think. And they might not even know what they need from you. But they are sure to voice their opinions on social media. In a competitive landscape...
View ArticleWhat motivates your CEO over the long term: Shareholder or social value?
How many chief executives want to create a socially valuable legacy? And how many of those can balance such longer-term priorities with the urgent demands of their investors and shareholders? This...
View ArticleCompliance in 2025: A continued critical role for the pharmaceutical & life...
The business environment in 2025 is not going to get less risky or less complex. That’s why the Pharma/Life Sciences Chief Compliance Officer will play an increasingly critical role in setting...
View ArticleCompliance in 2025: A key future role for retail & consumer companies
The business environment in 2025 is not going to get less risky or less complex. That’s why the retail & consumer Chief Compliance Officer will play an increasingly critical role in setting...
View ArticleCompliance in 2025: An increasingly critical future role for technology...
The business environment in 2025 is not going to get less risky or less complex. That’s why the technology Chief Compliance Officer will play an increasingly critical role in setting strategy, steering...
View ArticleCompliance in 2025: An increasingly important future role for industrial...
The business environment in 2025 is not going to get less risky or less complex. That’s why the industrial manufacturing Chief Compliance Officer will play an increasingly critical role in setting...
View ArticleCompliance in 2025: A key future role for the insurance industry
The business environment in 2025 is not going to get less risky or less complex. That’s why the insurance Chief Compliance Officer will play an increasingly critical role in setting strategy, steering...
View ArticleThe surprising truth about the C-Suite star of 2025
The business environment in 2025 is not going to get less risky or less complex. That’s why the Chief Compliance Officer will play an increasingly critical role in setting strategy, steering the...
View ArticleCompliance in 2025: An increasingly critical role future for energy, power...
The business environment in 2025 is not going to get less risky or less complex. That’s why the utilities, energy and power Chief Compliance Officer will play an increasingly critical role in setting...
View ArticleMeasuring supplier performance can protect your business and your reputation
Measuring key suppliers’ performance protects your business and reputation
View ArticleQuality healthcare for all: Starting from a strong base
Public-private partnerships offer a solution to the healthcare needs of underserved billions that works for both market and provider.
View ArticleBuilding a risk-resilient organisation
In the current (and likely foreseeable) environment of rapidly shifting and often disruptive trends, enterprise resilience entails not only preparing for risk, but capitalizing on the opportunity that...
View ArticleInfographic: Resilience builders
In the current (and likely foreseeable) environment of rapidly shifting and often disruptive trends, enterprise resilience entails not only preparing for risk, but capitalizing on the opportunity that...
View ArticleThe emerging capability every business needs
We believe that only a few companies are truly ready. They’ve built their readiness through the emerging capability of resilience, with six distinctive traits that combine to define their ability to...
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