Today’s heightened geopolitical risk environment—characterized by volatility, uncertainty, and a widening range of possible outcomes—has become a more significant driver of operational and strategic risks to trade, finance, and investment than in prior periods. Drawing on the comprehensive World Risk Review analysis of 197 countries and territories, this report provides a succinct summary of the most crucial information that can help your organization be equipped to adapt its risk management strategies in response to today’s geopolitical and geoeconomic landscape.
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The wealthy today are more optimistic about their financial opportunities—but they are also more worried about the risks they face, recognizing that their wealth could be lost in an instant in the face of threats like catastrophic weather events, cybercrime, theft, and liability settlements. To further gauge their concerns (and changing aspirations), this Wealth Report surveyed a wide-ranging group of successful individuals.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming an integral part of our daily lives and workplaces. With AI’s growing prevalence, organizations must consider developing not only an AI strategy but also a robust internal AI policy. This guide outlines the reasons for establishing an internal AI policy, the stakeholders involved, essential policy components, and best practices for communication and implementation. HR departments should also create their own AI policies, focusing on areas such as recruitment, onboarding, training, timekeeping, and compliance.
With artificial intelligence’s (AI) prevalence, companies must consider developing not only an AI strategy but also a robust internal AI policy. Download this checklist for a step-by-step guidance on how to create an internal AI policy for your organization. For the in-depth insights on developing an internal AI policy, explore the Comprehensive Guide.
Extreme winter weather is responsible for hundreds of deaths and substantial financial losses in North America each year. By taking proactive measures, you can ensure you’re better equipped to handle the challenges winter storms present. Stay safe and use this checklist as part of your risk management plan to help you prepare, respond, and recover from a winter storm.
Developed by the World Economic Forum with support from strategic partners like Marsh McLennan, this essential guide outlines the major risk issues and provides practical steps for leaders to confidently plan for what’s ahead. Crafted with insights from over 900+ global experts, use this 20th edition of the key findings to identify, understand, and prepare for today’s and tomorrow's risks that include environmental risks, technological risks, and deepening geopolitical and geoeconomic tensions. Learn the actions you and your organization can take to build and maintain resilience.
The Global Risks Report is a comprehensive analysis of the most significant risks facing the world today. Designed to help understand the top risks for 2025 and over the next decade, this report provides insight into challenges and opportunities for risk leaders across industries. Developed by the World Economic Forum with support from strategic partners like Marsh McLennan, it’s considered a key resource for those who want to stay updated about the global risks and inform their strategic decisions to mitigate them.
For many affluent families, risk management has become less a matter of how much insurance premiums will cost and more an issue of how much financial risk they are willing and able to accept. In an ever-shifting risk environment where families are assuming higher levels of exposure, families will need to be increasingly cognizant of potential risks in their lives and take proactive steps to safeguard their loved ones, assets, personal data, and financial security.
While business continuity planning and good crisis management are important, organizational resilience encompasses much more. An integrated approach to resilience provides organizations a competitive advantage over less-prepared peers, as well as the ability to adapt to constantly changing external circumstances. Organizations would be well-served to adopt a structured, disciplined resilience approach that accounts for situations in which multiple risk events interact.
Since the disruption of COVID-19, organizations have had to navigate soaring inflation, a rapid increase in interest rates, and escalating global tensions that have destabilized supply chains. All around, there has been enormous pressure on organizations to adapt and move from one crisis to the next. It’s no longer an option to simply take shelter and wait for the storm to pass and rely on traditional approaches to risk management. Against this backdrop, companies have started to adapt an ‘antifragile’ approach to risk, one that seeks to find opportunities in crisis.