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F&B manufacturers: How to trust AI forecasts when conditions change
Increasingly, artificial intelligence (AI) is now embedded across the food and beverage value chain, from demand forecasting to product line quality checks and from new product development to consumer engagement. When it works, it can deliver speed, precision and increased margin. But when governance and control fail to keep pace, it introduces fragility, over-reliance, potential for error and a range of operational, data privacy, people and reputational risks.
Agentic AI: Trends, risks and how your business can respond
Skip to main content main content, press tab to continue By | February 20, 2026 What new risks emerge when AI systems can independently plan, reason and take actions to achieve complex goals with minimal human oversight? Risk Management Consulting N/A Agentic AI systems can now act with limited human involvement, triggering workflows, interacting with data and completing tasks across platforms.
Three AI risks your board may be missing and what to do about them
01 AI systems excel at pattern recognition, but they can be brittle. They perform well within trained parameters but may fail unpredictably when exposed to new conditions or when the real-world environment no longer aligns with training data. This concept is called “Model drift”. In practice, it may work like this: your team deploys an AI model that performs flawlessly at launch. Confidence grows. But when market conditions shift, the model’s accuracy drops and no one notices.
Reasons to use a risk register
Why should organizations invest time and effort into developing, maintaining and utilizing a risk register? Using a risk register to capture, organize, manage and utilize risk information is commonly perceived as a component of strong governance. A risk register is far more than simply a way of achieving compliance with governance standards. Effective risk registers can also be a strategic and operational tool capable of adding significant value to your organization.
Food, Drugs, Healthcare, Life Sciences
Understanding the key principles of managing allergen risks protects people and your organisation. You can reduce allergen risks with the right combination of robust processes and embedded culture. The risks around providing food and drink containing allergens to customers have been extensively publicised in recent months following incidents involving large food chains.
Navigating The Playing Field: ERM Strategies For Success In The Sports Industry
How can enterprise risk management (ERM) help sports organisations understand and address multifaceted challenges to their brands and financial performance? Organisations in the sports industry are no strangers to the balance of risk and reward. In the pursuit of success, you need to maintain focus on financial performance, brand management, cultivating a loyal fan base while also being alert to increasing regulation and compliance, among many other risks.
Building Resilience To Emerging Cyber Risks In The Food And Beverage Industry
Innovations in technology, automation and artificial intelligence (AI) have huge potential to transform the food and beverage sector, but rapid digitization also increases cyber risks. In WTW's Food and Beverage Survey 2024, when asked about their greatest near-term opportunities, 48% of respondents said increased use of production technologies such as automation, and 43% new technologies, such as AI[1].
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How To Manage Emerging Risks To Boost Resilience Using ERM Best Practice
ISO31050, new guidance on emerging risks, can reinforce your existing enterprise risk management (ERM) framework's ability to strengthen organisational resilience. In a more connected and complex world, emerging risks can arise quickly and from unexpected sources. New ISO31050 Guidelines for managing emerging risk to enhance resilience can help you stay ahead. We examined elements of the new guidance in our insights article ISO31050: Introducing the risk intelligence cycle for emerging risks.
Five Reasons To Use A Risk Register
Using a risk register to capture, organise, manage and utilise risk information is commonly perceived as a component of strong governance.
Protect And Preserve: Defending Your Charity From Five Key Risks - Charities & Non-Profits - UK
For many charities, being able to help beneficiaries relies on factors that unwittingly open them up to increased risks to their viability: relying both on the time and skills of volunteers to deliver services and oversee governance, and depending on public and institutional trust for funding. Also, in common with commercial businesses, charities need to comply with potentially challenging governance demands while operating with tighter budgets.
Practical Pedagogies! - List of Speakers
Finding (free) quality images and media resources for teaching and learningTeachers often ask where can they get really good free images and media content that they can use in their lessons, without infringing copyright? A growing number of museums, libraries, and archives around the world are digitising their collections and making them freely available. Similarly, the quality and availability of copyright free "stock" media continues to improve.
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