Regardless of the political intentions and outcomes, there are some valuable lessons that security risk management practitioners could learn a year on from the debacle of a withdrawal from Afghanistan – which represented a disgraceful coda to this tragically pointless war and occupation – including technology (where it was helpful, Read more…
Our a guide to good practice: 1. Develop a cross functional team. This should be identified through undertaking stakeholder analysis, and requires representation of all the relevant business functions in your organisation. 2. Build a risk profile. This is the responsibility of the cross functional team, it is important to Read more…
Growing economic pressures to reduce costs and increase efficiencies with fewer resources have [always] caused many companies to award their security contracts to the lowest bidder. Low-bid contracts force security providers to cut corners in order to cut costs, resulting in poor security and an increased liability to customers. Often Read more…
Every day we see companies, and their employees independently, posting testimonials for their solutions on Social Media. These are great!… but, in a short scroll, they’re gone and likely forgotten. There is huge value in hearing and reading the opinion of people who have benefited from your solutions, so why Read more…
We have now released our 4th application in Marshal, the digital hub for Safety, Security, & Risk Management capability: RESOURCES! “Resources” enables you to improve cash flow by increasing resource utilization or offloading surplus capacity. For example: Armoured vehicles in Erbil, Iraq Surveillance Drones in Nairobi, Kenya Executive Protection for UHNW Read more…
People don’t go “shopping” for Security & Risk Management Training Courses on LinkedIn. When they are actually looking for a course (think, “buyer journey”!), the absence of an alternative to source and review options means they use their LinkedIn network for referrals. This can often mean that better and / or more appropriate Read more…
Our Safety, Security, & Risk Management RESOURCES application will be released in the coming days! We will soon launch our Safety, Security, & Risk Management “Resources” application, enabling stakeholders to generate value from equipment, facilities and other assets via dynamically manageable classified promotions, so they can respond to specific Read more…
The Safety, Security, & Risk Management market is highly fragmented, opaque, increasingly regulated, and difficult to navigate. Finding the credible information required to make informed decisions is challenging and time-consuming, causing delay and increased cost, missed opportunities, and liability exposure. How can I access the best candidates – operationally compliant Read more…
“A return to business travel – mapping out the kidnap and extortive threat” is a very interesting report released by Hiscox, in partnership with Control Risks, looking into the decline of kidnapping as a consequence of reduced business travel during COVID-10, but the likely reversal of such trends as the Read more…
More and more, we are seeing the need for agility in the marketplace. Safety, Security and Risk Management departments need to focus on flexibility, creativity and speed to stay relevant, and this means a convergence of cyber, physical, travel, crisis management and other related capabilities. To help, Marshal converges all Read more…