Transformative Technologies

Perspective Harnessing Technology Convergence

As innovative disruption and pandemic-induced constraints present challenges to existing business models, the convergence of complementary technologies is creating a range of capabilities in smart factories that are improving productivity, flexibility, and business continuity.

Perspective Machine Learning has Revolutionised Forecasting during COVID-19

All eyes on speed, accuracy, and cost

Perspective European Digital Sovereignty

Syncing Values and Value

Perspective The Next Generation of Office Communication Tech

Most knowledge workers in 2020 are familiar with mixed reality tools like Zoom, Teams, and Slack that enable them to meet in virtual locations. By merging real and virtual worlds to produce new environments, employees who relied on in-person office interactions as recently as nine months ago now meet on virtual tropical islands, virtually “stand” in front of presentations beamed around the world, or maintain banter and team spirit with timely GIFs and emojis mixed into their workday messages.

Perspective Emerging technologies and the future of infrastructure

The transformative and disruptive technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution are reimagining the possibilities for the built environment.

Report Global Risks Report 2021

COVID-19 has exacerbated ongoing geopolitical and societal challenges, and the existential crisis of climate change looms large. More innovative and collaborative approaches to resilience are needed more than ever.

Report Global Risks for Infrastructure: The Technology Challenge

Technological innovation is reimagining the possibilities for the built environment, challenging infrastructure investors and operators alike to pre-empt disruption and actively seek fresh margins.

Perspective Governing Artificial Intelligence

The explosion in AI usage by businesses over the past few years has driven an unmistakable inflection in innovation, efficiency, and profitability. However, it has also exposed firms to ethical pitfalls and wasted investments, making effective governance and risk management vital.

Journal MMC Cyber Handbook 2021

Cyberattacks are among the most severe and likely risks facing business leaders in advanced economies, according to the latest Global Risk Report, published by the World Economic Forum with support from Marsh & McLennan.

Perspective Digital Deception: Is Your Business Ready for “Deepfakes”?

Supported by advances in artificial intelligence, deepfakes have proliferated across the internet as the technology becomes less expensive and more accessible. 

Perspective Prepare to Protect Your Customers’ Voices

Digital assistants are always listening, creating a significant security risk as the threat of voice-based cybercrime grows.

Perspective Is Your Company a Risk to Others in the Supply Chain?

The concept of “technological social responsibility” — the recognition and acknowledgement by each organization of its cybersecurity obligations within the supply chain — is now on the agenda for many industry leaders.

Perspective Don’t Forget Your Cyber Risk Sentries

The exponential surge in the numbers of employees working from home (WFH) during the COVID-19 pandemic is increasing organizational cyber risk in terms of overall number of potential threats and the potential impact of those threats.

Report Looking Beyond the Clouds: A U.S. Cyber Insurance Industry Catastrophe Loss Study

A Guy Carpenter and CyberCube Analytics collaboration explores the size and shape of cyber catastrophes and the resulting financial impact on the U.S. cyber insurance industry

Perspective Silent Cyber No Longer Silent?

Silent (or non-affirmative) cyber refers to cyber-related exposure within many all-risk general insurance products. If no explicit cyber exclusion applies, coverage for losses caused by cyber perils may apply. This underlying exposure’s potential for aggregated loss is currently one of the major issues being considered by the re/insurance industry.

Perspective The Changing Nature of Risk: The Cyber Risk Landscape

The insurability of systemic risk is going to be one of the defining issues of the next decade for the re/insurance sector. Rapid technological changes, digitalization in particular, have already transformed the characteristics of risks assumed by the re/insurance market. COVID-19 will only accelerate these trends.