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IRM, ERM, and GRC: Is There a Difference?

Reciprocity

The various niches of risk management have become a veritable alphabet soup of acronyms. For example, retail is now “e-tail,” manufacturing plants are increasingly automated, and nearly every step of the hiring and contracting process happens online, from application to background checks to payroll. Which is best?

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Emergency Planning

Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016.