August 24, 2023
Risk blindness: “why people, companies and politicians who are well aware of climate risk nevertheless fail to plan or react appropriately.”
Risk blindness: “why people, companies and politicians who are well aware of climate risk nevertheless fail to plan or react appropriately.”
Backlash Over AI Work. Companies can mitigate the risk of backlash by encouraging collaboration between IT, enterprise risk management and communications within the organization, as well as getting the board involved in overseeing the risk management process, said Steel City Re’s Kossovsky.
As ESG joins CSR in obscurity, regulators enter their 25th year more committed to supervising reputation risk management…See ABA Risk and Compliance below.
Data-driven independent intelligence. Among the lessons we should learn about reputation risk from Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, Credit Suisse and others is that directors need better, more objective information about what stakeholders expect: the source of reputation value.
Parametric reputation health risk monitoring reports. Corporate leaders, from chief marketing officers to risk management professionals to boards of directors, need better monitoring tools for risks to reputation health and the costs of reputation loss – tools like the kind of reputation volatility assessments that are used by certain reputation insurers.
Record high profit risk. Experts warn that exuberant price increases may come with reputational risks. “Boards should communicate that the firm’s risk management process…is thoughtful, dutifully overseen, and applies to everything that is mission critical, Kossovsky wrote.
CEOs Going Viral. Starbucks founder Howard Schultz recently clashed with Sen. Bernie Sanders “There being nothing to surprise their respective stakeholders, raise their emotional states, and shift their prior expectations, I don’t think there was any material reputational impact to anyone,” Kossovsky wrote.
Intelligence Unit Briefing. Our reputation risk management advisory services integrate principles of quality management and behavioral economics, substantiated by a proprietary quantitative methodology. Our ESG | reputation insurances are parametric.
Panic and stock share dump. Thriving in a tornado corridor or flood plain demands fortitude and a reliable risk strategy. The same goes for investing in equity markets. In times of panic — think Southwest Airlines, Norfolk Southern and Silicon Valley Bank — investor moxie may give way to stock share dumps. […] Integrated processes, timely intelligence and good risk communications will help investors appreciate and value risk strategies and not panic.
Reputation insurer Steel City Re is offering access to its proprietary Reputation Volatility Metrics (RVM) Reports as a stand-alone product to boards of directors seeking timely, actionable intelligence tools to help them oversee mission critical risks. Best governance practices encourage boards to improve their risk oversight with independent intelligence sources. At a time when companies face multiple shifting and diverse risks that are magnified and accelerated by weaponized social media, Steel City Re said that its RVM report is a powerful tool for board members overseeing the management of enterprise risks such as ESG, reputation, ethics, safety, and security.