The Boardroom Blog
Tuesday, November 01, 2011 | Posted by: Paul Mewett
Categories:
Risk
| Tags: report,
risk,
Board,
advice,
risk management,
guide,
social media,
Strategy,
Twitter,
crisis,
reputation,
Facebook,
Alan Joyce,
PR,
Qantas,
monitoring,
Internet Intelligence

Social media – what’s the worst that can happen? Quite a lot, as Qantas found out, when a social media crisis hit both its share price and its world-famous reputation for safety. Grant Thornton’s Internet Intelligence team reviews the story and suggests ways in which companies can implement a social media risk management strategy.
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Thursday, September 23, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Risk
| Tags: business,
governance,
recession,
report,
survey,
risk,
data,
business models,
Simon Lowe,
risk management,
questionnaire,
tools,
Business Risk Services,
Strategy

Our recent business risk report shows widespread complacency in company risk management processes. Check the risk maturity of your organisation with our quick online assessment tool.
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Research
| Tags: innovation,
report,
survey,
business models,
retail,
boardroom,
Strategy

Insights from our latest sector survey, Pressure unabated: UK retailers contemplate business model change, should fuel boardroom discussions in the competitive UK retail sector, which has experienced a profound shift from the emergence of the internet as both a shop window and a retail outlet.
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Monday, March 15, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Governance
| Tags: business models,
Board,
New Business Models,
listed,
The Economist,
Strategy

We commissioned The Economist Intelligence Unit to survey UK executives on how assumptions on business models have changed, and how companies are planning to adapt over the next 18 months.
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