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Sep 5, 2024

Strategic Value of Risk Management

Learn how to integrate risk management into strategic decisions to drive competitive advantage. Explore tools to enhance your organization’s approach.
Using Strategic Risk Analysis to Identify Potential Risks to Strategic Initiatives

Sep 4, 2024

ERM Tool: Using Strategic Risk Analysis to Identify Potential Risks to Strategic Initiatives

Download this template to help assess potential risks that may impact your organization's core business drivers or new strategic initiatives.
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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.

Sep 27, 2022

2022 Global State of Enterprise Risk Oversight

2022 Global State of Enterprise Risk Oversight Report, in collaboration with AICPA and CIMA.

Feb 23, 2022

New Case Study: Using Scenario Planning to Consider Emerging Risks

Recent events have highlighted the importance of planning for an uncertain future.  The ERM Initiative is excited to release this new case study “A Look into The Future with Scenario Planning: A Survey of ERM Practices” that looks at ways multiple organizations use scenario planning to address uncertainty and identify the risks and opportunities that may arise under different conditions.  

Nov 2, 2021

2021 Global State of Enterprise Risk Oversight

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

Aug 16, 2021

Strengthening Operational Resilience in a Post-Pandemic Environment

In a post-pandemic environment, organizations worldwide are implementing risk management strategies to create more resilient future operations. Operational resilience is the organization's ability to prepare responses to be in a position to recover quickly from disruptive events and continue to function amid challenging events. In its thought paper, Operational Resilience: Considerations for Boards, the C-Suite and Enterprisewide Implementation, Protiviti outlines top considerations for business leaders as they build resilience to support disruptions of an organization's ability to deliver goods and services, regardless of the severity of the event. Protiviti highlights a number of key concepts and practices for C-suite leaders, considerations for the board in overseeing operational resilience, and a checklist of essential elements to implement a resilience plan.

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.
Getting Started with ERM for Nonprofits

Jul 14, 2021

Getting Started with Enterprise Risk Management: A Guide for Nonprofits

A video discussion of, "Getting Started with Enterprise Risk Management: A Guide for Nonprofits."

Jun 26, 2018

COSO’s Take on the Three Lines of Defense

As risks begin to threaten the achievement of company objectives, senior management must determine the appropriate way to respond. Responsibilities and duties must be clearly identified so individuals are aware of their roles in addressing these risks and controls. COSO developed the three lines of defense model that addresses how specific duties related to risks and controls could be assigned and coordinated within the organization to alleviate the threat. Ultimately, the model is designed to ensure individuals within each line of defense are aware of their full responsibilities and how these responsibilities fit into the organization's overall risk and control structure.