ERM Fundamentals

Dec 31, 2006

Enterprise Risk Management: Frameworks, Elements, and Integration

Discover key ERM frameworks and best practices for integrating risk management into strategy. Learn how management accountants play a vital role in risk identification, assessment, and mitigation.

Nov 1, 2006

RIMS ERM Maturity Model

The Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) has recently introduced its Risk Maturity Model (RMM) to help organizations better utilize Enterprise Risk Management. The RIMS Risk Maturity Model can be used by chief risk officers and other risk practitioners as a resource to aide in planning, implementing, and benchmarking Enterprise Risk Management practices within their organizations.

Nov 1, 2006

A Changing Risk Landscape – A Study of Corporate ERM in the U.S.

The 2006 survey by Towers Perrin and Monitor Group of 75 senior finance executives from large publicly traded US companies highlights a rising focus on risk management. Key findings include the identification of major risk categories such as operational, strategic, financial, and compliance risks, with a notable trend towards the adoption of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) for better communication and risk-return management.

Jun 15, 2006

The 2006 Oversight Systems Financial Executive Report on Risk Management

Discover insights from the 2006 Oversight Systems Report, focusing on proactive risk strategies, technology-driven oversight, and governance enhancements to strengthen financial institutions in a volatile global economy.

Mar 24, 2006

Home Depot’s Approach to ERM

David Whatley, vice president for risk management at Atlanta-based Home Depot Inc., spoke on March 24th to 130 business professionals at the second of three Spring 2006 ERM Roundtables. Whatley described Home Depot’s approach to managing risks at the world’s largest home improvement retailer.

Jan 1, 2006

ERM Guide: Frequently Asked Questions

Protiviti’s ERM Guide answers key questions about ERM implementation, offering insights into risk alignment, stakeholder confidence, governance, and managing performance variability.

Nov 18, 2005

Leveraging Compliance into Enterprise Risk Management at Entrust

Entrust Inc. CFO David Wagner discusses lessons from Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and rising information security demands. Learn how these challenges helped Entrust enhance its ERM and strategic risk management practices.

Sep 30, 2005

Evolution of ERM

Business professionals have varied personal definitions of enterprise risk management (ERM) based on their limited exposure to the new idea and their specific encounters with its effects given their roles within their companies. However, in order to better understand risk management, and especially ERM, risk itself must be better understood with greater uniformity than that with which it has been understood in the past. Misconceptions have kept business professionals from understanding risk as measurable in both negative and positive outcomes, as existent even without the occurrence of an event, and as affective of businesses in many areas, not just in the consideration of insurance.

May 20, 2005

ERM: Getting Beyond Risk Identification to Sustainability

Learn how organizations can align ERM with strategy, enhance decision-making, and build resilience through effective risk management frameworks and sustainable risk practices.

Mar 11, 2005

ERM and Business Continuity

There is a huge debate over the roles and positioning of risk management and business continuity management within organizations. Some argue one function should be subordinate to the other. The key, however, is that the organization must determine the functional scopes of each function and communicate the appropriate relationship of the two tasks. Each organization needs to decide the appropriate mixture of these two functions.