Insights & Impacts

While there’s not much point stressing over what we can’t control, it is our responsibility to move forward with our eyes wide open. That’s what I always kept in mind when I spent five years helping FM Global to develop its Resilience Index.

Watch this 3-minute video by FM Global, "Preparing for Windstorms" and ensure your team has these important steps covered at all your facilities.

If any of your locations are in the path of any forecasted hurricane-force winds or heavy rain, follow your emergency plan and be sure to take these steps, if they can be done safely, to help mitigate damage.

A recent report from the New South Wales Resources Regulator reveals that mobile plant fires in the state have risen in the past decade.

Watch the video from inside the FM Global Research Campus.

If we have one job as CFOs, it's protecting the value of our companies. One of the most insidious threats to corporate value is sudden disruption from events like fire, hurricane, flood, earthquake or cyber attack—disruption that is ostensibly insured. We tend to be vaguely aware of this risk, but rarely do we put numbers to it.

Where your partners, customers and locations are around the world affects how you do business. And having the latest data about the countries you operate in is critical to managing enterprise risk.

CFOs are responsible for managing their organization's risks, and that responsibility is only expanding. Business risks are getting more complex and numerous every day, and finance chiefs are increasingly accountable to shareholders and directors.

Recent catastrophic fires at high-profile arts and heritage facilities have some of us asking whether we are truly learning from our history.