In depth: Why resilience is key to an holistic risk management solution
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While overseeing risk continues to be part of the insurance conversation, Martin Friel discovers there is a greater understanding that protecting a business is less about focusing on particular incidents – and more about its resiliency as a whole.
The world is pretty weird. Since the Covid-19 pandemic hit, it seems like humanity has been battered by one crises after another. So much so that the word permacrisis (apparently the word of 2022) has been used to describe how we now live.
In fact, so bizarre has life become that some have suggested a weasel chewing through a wire at the Large Hadron Collider sent us all spinning into an alternative reality.
However, back in the real (but weird) world, this state of permacrisis is having a
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