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Apr 5, 2024

What is Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)?

This article outlines how ERM differs from traditional risk management and how an ERM process can be one of the entity's most important strategic tools.
Organizing Management Level Risk Committees & Risk Owner Discussions

Jan 21, 2025

ERM Tool: Organizing Management-Level Risk Committees & Risk Owner Discussions

Many organizations now have management-level risk committees with cross-functional teams. This tool provides guidance for ERM leaders to ensure productive Risk Committee meetings and effective discussions
How do you effectively communicate risk insights to a board of directors?

Jan 8, 2025

Approaches to Communicating Risk Insights

Learn approaches for communicating enterprise-wide risks to executives and boards. Enhance risk management with insights and a free ERM tool.
Free ERM tool for creating a Risk Profile Summary to enhance risk management.

Jan 8, 2025

ERM Tool: Creating a Risk Profile Summary

Discover how to create a Risk Profile Summary for effective risk management, and download a free ERM tool to streamline the process.
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Oct 17, 2024

Techniques to Prioritize and Monitor Risks

Learn how organizations prioritize risks, using qualitative and quantitative methods, and track key risk indicators for effective risk management.

Nov 18, 2021

Looking for a better way to report risk information to management?

The ERM Initiative is pleased to provide this new case study, “Management Dashboards: Visualizing Enterprise Risks”, that illustrates a number of different ways organizations are embedding risk insights into management’s dashboard reports.  The report was prepared by graduate students in the Poole College of Management at North Carolina State University based on input they received from 19 companies covering 9 industries including healthcare, financial services, pharmaceuticals, utilities, and wholesale/retail trades. 

Nov 2, 2021

2021 Global State of Enterprise Risk Oversight

2021 Global State of Risk Oversight Report, in collaboration with AICPA and CIMA.

Jul 14, 2021

Getting Started with ERM: A Guide for Nonprofits Templates

Download this set of practical tools and templates that nonprofit organizations can use to advance your risk governance practices.

Dec 9, 2020

Tools for Escalating Risk Issues to the C-Suite and Board

This thought paper, Tools for Escalating Risk Issues to the C-Suite and Board, by Marc Beasley and Jeff Lovern, provides a flexible tool/template to facilitate risk reporting to senior management and the board. Organizations are navigating a multitude of risks triggered by the ongoing pandemic and business leaders are also faced with numerous other significant events. These developments are rapidly presenting a web of challenges that need the immediate attention of C-Suite executives and boards.

Feb 23, 2017

2017 The State of Risk Oversight Report: An Overview of Enterprise Risk Management Practices

Explore the 2017 State of Risk Oversight report by NC State’s ERM Initiative and the AICPA, offering insights from executives on the maturity of ERM practices across various industries.

Jan 4, 2009

Risk Mis-Management

Explore how VaR models revolutionized risk measurement in finance, their appeal and limitations, and why firms must pair them with human judgment to navigate unpredictable risks effectively. Read more!