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December 3, 2024
Navigating the modern reputation landscape can feel like sailing through stormy seas. Factors influencing your brand’s perception can erupt from anywhere, often beyond your control. One negative tweet can lead to a trending hashtag, and headlines can be reshaped in the blink of an eye due to global events or unforeseen crises. So, how do you stay ahead of the curve?
July 30, 2024
In the face of a fresh wave of reported SA and global cyber breaches, Aprio Credence research confirms cyber threats remain at the top of risk registers for SA’s leading companies.
Over many years, Aprio has represented several clients in the resources sector. This sector faces numerous challenges that can negatively impact reputation and long-term success, including labour and community protest action, safety accidents, environmental impacts and activist campaigns, among others.
December 4, 2023
The year has proven to be a tough one for several well-known global corporations that have faced significant reputation crises. From data breaches to unethical behaviour, affected companies have had to navigate the fallout from these incidents, often facing public backlash and a loss of stakeholder trust
July 10, 2023
Despite multiple South African corporates publicly stating in recent months that they were doing contingency planning for a total electricity grid failure scenario, just a third (33%) of South Africa’s biggest companies have electricity supply concerns as a principal risk on their most recent published risk registers.
May 25, 2023
You can take practical, cost-effective steps to build organisational resilience and the ability to work through a crisis with your reputation still largely intact.
December 14, 2022
It’s that time of the year when many marketing and public relations consultants make bold, and frequently highly speculative predictions about trends they think will get some momentum in 2023.
September 26, 2022
While The Economist may have characterised Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) investing in a July 2022 special report as having “turned from an investment craze attracting trillions of dollars on promises to make the world a better place into a source of eye-rolling cynicism”, it seems ESG-related risks are now […]
May 16, 2022
A brand ambassador for your organisation who makes the news for his anti-vaxxing stance. The celebrity face and voice for your product or service, who is going viral after allegations of domestic violence surface on Twitter. The sports stadium bearing your company’s name, but where the sports team or sports […]
November 18, 2021
The five most prevalent concerns for C-suite executives around South Africa appear to be cyber risk, followed by pandemic-related impacts, the macro-economic environment, operating risks, and marketplace competition and disruption.