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The Next 10 Years
It’s a new decade. As you plan for growth, consider three major challenges—ones already affecting business around the world

After the triumphant 1990s, the first decade of the 21st century reminded everyone of the dangers that sneaked up behind globalization and prosperity. SARS and swine flu were scary illustrations of how quickly danger travels around our shrinking world. And some of the most violent terrorist attacks in history had a devastating effect on our collective consciousness.

Case Studies

Case Studies

Aon and Borusan Holding Partner to Manage the Company's Complex Risks
A chance meeting at a conference booth leads to a valued partnership
A fast-growing company in Turkey is taking its risk management program to a new standard through its partnership with a global Aon team. Ferhan Guzey and Firdevs Colak, the risk management team of Istanbul, Turkey-based...
Global Publisher Reed Elsevier Turns to Aon for Efficient Risk Management Solutions
The leading global publisher takes an action-oriented, scientific approach using RiskConsole
Just as astronomers tell us that our universe is expanding, the same can be said of risk profiles for companies in all industries. Take Reed Elsevier, a large global publisher of science and health information, for...
Henkel Goes Back to Basics to Manage Its Risks
The international consumer products company relies on, RiskConsole, Aon's cutting-edge risk management tool to protect its bottom line
Effectively using data is top of mind for David I. Schwartzer, risk manager at Henkel, a Fortune Global 500 leader in brands and technologies that markets a wide range of well-known consumer and industrial brands in...
Technology

Technology

Aon's WorldAware Solutions Enhances Travel Security
The program offers a broad scope of services—ranging from a mobile app to an around-the-clock operations center ready to intercede on your behalf
Traveling in foreign countries is often an uncertain proposition, with the unknown far outweighing the familiar. It was with this in mind that Aon's Crisis Management team developed WorldAware Solutions, essentially the...
Henkel Goes Back to Basics to Manage Its Risks
The international consumer products company relies on, RiskConsole, Aon's cutting-edge risk management tool to protect its bottom line
Effectively using data is top of mind for David I. Schwartzer, risk manager at Henkel, a Fortune Global 500 leader in brands and technologies that markets a wide range of well-known consumer and industrial brands in...
Human Capital and Risk Management: Two Areas that Will Help Your Company Profit During the Economic Recovery
The economic turn-around is inevitable. Planning your firm's human capital and risk management strategies now will help you prepare to profit upon its arrival
Looking back on the events of the past 12 months—auto giants filing for bankruptcy, tax-payer-funded bailouts, unemployment climbing into the double digits—it is difficult to take signs of an economic recovery seriously...
Insurance

Insurance

Lessons from the Demise of Kemper Insurance and Reliance Group
The collapse of two insurance industry titans offers lessons for how to navigate today's uncertain business environment
If there's one constant in today's world it's that change is an absolute and ongoing necessity. Organizations that take a "business as usual" approach and fail to evolve their practices and cultures are doomed to...
Triple Play: Real-World Examples of Business Opportunities and Growth
Tearing a page out of the insurance carriers playbook, these business growth strategies for developing market strength in a weak economy apply to any business
In the quest to increase revenue and profitability, no industry is immune to the obstacles that emerge during an economic downturn. Leaders of businesses big and small must balance the desire to grow against the need to...
Managing and Insuring Airline Industry Risk in Turbulent Times
Airlines continue to face big challenges. But risk doesn’t have to ground the industry
The last thing the airline industry wants is a bumpy ride. But that's exactly what's happened in the last decade, as the airline insurance market has experienced major turbulence. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11...
Organization Management

Organization Management

Expanding in Africa: The staffing risks
Awareness of people risk is the first step to overcoming obstacles
Hiring and retaining the highest-caliber employees poses challenges for any employer. That's especially true for Western companies with plans to expand in Africa.
Business Growth in Africa
A world of opportunity awaits enterprising organizations in this promising emerging market
Lions and lines. In the Western world, the mere mention of the word "Africa" conjures up two enduring images: lions, as in beasts roaming an unspoiled savannah; and lines, unending queues of silent, starving people,...
The Risk and Benefits of Virtual Workforces
For years, organizations have attempted to embrace telecommuting and remote workerforces. With the right technology and processes it's finally achievable
Innovative organizations have always looked for ways to ratchet up efficiency and productivity. They've reengineered business processes, adopted technology improvements and introduced a mind-bending array of perks. "The...
Research

Research

Aon's 2011 GRM Survey Identifies Top Risk Concerns
Results indicate the majority of companies are prepared for today's most significant business risks
Even as economies show signs of recovery from the global financial crisis, respondents to Aon's biennial Global Risk Management Survey still saw economic slowdown as the top risk. As with 2009, regulatory data and...
Focusing Inward—News about Managing Benefits and Talent
Aon's 2009 Benefits and Talent survey spotlights areas of importance for the years ahead
For the fourth consecutive year, Aon Consulting surveyed employers across the United States to examine their benefits and talent management practices and challenges. Conducted in March 2009 during a period of...
Driving Value: Enterprise Risk Management
Aon survey shows continued maturity and impact of ERM programs
In the last issue of Aon One (Q309), our cover story cited a broad commitment to risk management planning as key to successfully operating in both good and bad economic times (one.aon.com/focusing-big-picture). Based...
Risk Management

Risk Management

Reputation Management: How's Your Brand Holding Up?
Follow this advice to ensure it stands strong in the age of texts, tweets, blogs and posts
A mere 140 characters. That's all it takes to damage a brand's reputation these days. One tweet—or one Facebook posting or streamed homemade video or blog tirade—and countless hours of meticulous brand crafting,...
Catastrophe Modeling Takes the Sting Out of Long-Term Risk Management
Natural and human disasters are a regular part of life—and business. Catastrophe modeling offers lessons from these tumultuous events
It seems that hardly a day goes by without some type of disaster in some part of the world. Over the past two years, the scope and magnitude of these events has been astounding. There have been massive earthquakes in...
East Africa: The Core of the Continent's Growth
Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Burundi comprise the next possible regional powerhouse
While many Western countries have been suffering through a deep and ongoing recession, an untold success story has quietly been playing out elsewhere across the globe. The economies of East Africa—particularly Rwanda,...