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Category: Risk Management

Reasonable Worst-Case Scenarios
9 December 2020in Decision making, Foresight, Futures, Policy making, Risk Management1by Huw Williams and Jonathan Blanchard-Smith

Reasonable Worst-Case Scenarios

We’re hearing a lot from Government about “reasonable worst-case scenarios” at the moment. At first sight it seems sensible. We need to think beyond the “base case” or “central case”,…

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Cyber Risk - Should boards be concerned?
29 October 2020in Risk Management, Scenarios0by Paul Moxey

Cyber Risk - Should boards be concerned?

The short answer is ‘yes’. Boards should be very concerned. Cyber risk is a growing threat for all organisations. If an organisation has not already suffered a cyber attack it…

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Compromise risk: ‘cake-and- eat-it’ syndrome
16 October 2020in Decision making, Policy making, Risk Management0by Garry Honey

Compromise risk: ‘cake-and- eat-it’ syndrome

Viral epidemics have been part of human civilisation for centuries. Black Death in the fourteenth and Plague in the seventeenth, are only the most famous but there were many more…

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Political risk & the right strategy
30 September 2020in Decision making, Risk Management, Strategy1by Garry Honey

Political risk & the right strategy

Selecting the right risk mitigation strategy is always a matter of choice, the future is uncertain and the default human response tends to be risk aversion. Some uncertainties can be…

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Risk – how do you see your future in the glass
3 September 2020in Risk Management0by Garry Honey

Risk – how do you see your future in the glass

Risk as a management discipline gets a poor press. Like a hapless government agency it often appears that it has been set up to fail, due to unrealistic expectations of…

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Existential risk – should we take notice?
18 June 2020in Risk Management, Trends0by Garry Honey

Existential risk – should we take notice?

The current pandemic has raised the question about existential risk and our response to it. What exactly is an existential threat anyway? The literal answer is anything that impacts our…

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The Future of AI UK: Alan Turing Institute

The Future of AI UK: Alan Turing Institute

8 April 2021by Harry Wilby

Hosted over two days and across two alternative stages, the Alan Turing Institute hosted AI UK; a tour d’horizon from…

Futures Literacy and Anticipation

Futures Literacy and Anticipation

24 March 2021by Tony Diggle

Anticipation is a growing trend. In January, Jonathan Blanchard Smith reviewed the European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS) Conference…

Resilience – a “black swan” strategy

Resilience – a “black swan” strategy

17 March 2021by Huw Williams

The major shock of the pandemic highlights how successfully or otherwise different organisations are coping. We can also see how…

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NEWS AND EVENTS

Upcoming events
26- 30th April 2021: Online Futures Thinking course

Government Office for Science Futures Framework – SAMI Prospectus
SAMI is on the GO-Science Futures Framework, making it easy for public sector bodies to commission futures projects from us.  For more information go to our Government page or download our Prospectus.

Training
Our next public Futures Thinking  online course will run from 26-30 April 2021 in five sessions, starting at 10:00am (UK time) each day and lasting one and a half to two hours each. The course fee is £490 + VAT, and discounts may be available for self-funded individuals. For more information, or if you wish to make a booking, please email us at training@samiconsulting.co.uk

We also run a one-day workshop on cognitive bias for Boards and senior management.

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