This was an interview with Spend Matters.
Are companies paying more attention to risk as they become more sophisticated, or are risks so numerous nowadays that risk management has become a bigger priority? If news headlines are any indication, we are all in need of a few contingency plans. And if you — as a business or as an individual — don’t even know where to start, well, you’re not alone. From hurricanes and earthquakes to Brexit and the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), what is one supposed to look at first?
Spend Matters founder Jason Busch and Coupa’s senior economist Ahmad Sadeddin are hosting a free webinar next Thursday, October 26, at 12 p.m. CDT, and they decided to tackle the broad, unwieldy topic of risk management through looking at three top risk areas: regulatory, environmental and economic. They will be sharing real-life anecdotes about buyers and suppliers who successfully handled crises through partnership and collaboration (though there will also be un-success stories, involving a good deal of panic).
Ahmad Sadeddin 