How finance leaders can navigate geopolitical risk
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Businesses are operating under increasingly disruptive geopolitical pressures and finance chiefs are painfully aware of the challenges they pose. Geopolitical risk was cited by CFOs as the number one factor likely to pose a significant threat to their company in the next 12 months, according to Deloitte's Q4 CFO Survey.?
Worse still, the same survey reveals they don't know how to respond. Almost half (47%) said they relied on addressing such issues as they arise with only 18% saying they develop contingency plans for specific geopolitical events.
While risks are largely out of finance leaders’ control, what strategies can they employ to mitigate them? Finance writer Sam Birchall investigates. Read more.
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Last week saw the release of the government’s eagerly anticipated employment rights bill. The 158-page document provides an outline of the 28 workers’ rights reforms that employers will have to navigate once the bill is enacted into law. This includes a day-one right to protection from unfair dismissal, new restrictions on zero-hours contracts and additional protections for working?mothers.
Now that HR professionals have had a chance to comb through the bill, HR editor Sam Forsdick asks what HR leaders make of the changes – and how will it impact their ever-increasing workloads? Read more.
Three-minute explainer on… AI hallucinations
Generative AI hype soared in 2023. Today, that hype has transformed into action and most enterprises are using the technology in some?capacity.?
While some organisations may not have determined the best use cases yet, business leaders remain optimistic about its potential. The vast majority (86%) of CEOs surveyed by Gartner believe AI can help maintain or grow company revenue.
However, several quirks are holding adoption back. One of these is the tendency for GenAI to completely make things?up. Tech writer Tamlin Magee explains all you need to know about AI hallucinations. Read more.
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