Insights & Impacts

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.

The environmental cost of natural disasters is now an almost daily feature on the news agenda, yet many businesses are still doing little to address their own vulnerability.

Find out how Boral Australia, one of the world’s largest producers of construction materials, used preparation to weather Cyclone Debbie.

Within the expected design life of the solar farm, there is a 20 per cent chance of it being hit by a cyclone that would cause significant damage to the solar panels. Standardised cyclone testing and national standards for all types of panels and installation configurations needs to be implemented.

While everyone will undoubtedly welcome forthcoming clarity around how to treat cladding, it appears likely that a gap will remain between knowing what is right and getting it done.

The inherent randomness of equipment failures raises the relevance of implementing more frequent monitoring throughout the lifespan of a piece of machinery to avoid unplanned shutdowns.

It’s impossible to mitigate all of the risks in your supply chain but there are lots of ways to minimise your exposure.