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Enterprise Risk Management Initiative

Risk Identification and Assessment

Nov 27, 2017

What Are Audit Committees Really Thinking About?

KPMG’s survey reveals six key risks on audit committees’ radars, including risk management, CFO succession planning, and cyber threats. Learn how these insights can help businesses tackle future challenges.

Nov 27, 2017

Where are You on the Risk Management Journey?

Discover how LEADERS are applying structured risk management to enhance regulatory compliance, shareholder confidence, and strategic risk assessment. Learn about effective risk management processes and organizational levels involved in ERM.

May 16, 2017

Why Teams Often Make Riskier Decisions Than Individuals (and What You Can Do About It)

Dr. Brad Kirkman, General (Ret.) H. Hugh Shelton Distinguished Professor of Leadership, NC State University Poole College of Management, Shares his insights about how decisions made by teams may actually introduce more risks than when decisions are made individually. He also provides tips for how to counter that concern.

Feb 1, 2017

Riskiness of Incentive Compensation Plans

Reassessing existing incentive compensation plans has become a more significant and common agenda for many corporations. It has become increasingly evident that these incentive plans have driven questionable employee behavior and resulted in damaging consequences and reputations for businesses. The responsibility of many boards of directors now includes the assessment of whether there are proper processes in place to identify and mitigate the potential risks that come with these incentive compensation programs. This article from Deloitte discusses in detail their recommendations for how boards and compensation committees should conduct these risk reviews.

Dec 8, 2016

2017 Top Risks Report: Executive Perspectives on Top Risks for 2017

NC State's ERM Initiative, with Protiviti, has released the "Executive Perspectives on Top Risks for 2017" report, identifying global economic concerns, regulatory scrutiny, and cyber threats as major risks. The findings underscore the need for enhanced risk management and oversight.
Phil Maxwell

Sep 27, 2016

Risk Identification and Risk Training

Phil Maxwell, Director of Enterprise Risk Management at The Coca-Cola Company shares risk identification techniques and Coca-Cola’s approach to ERM education and training.
Scott Williams

Aug 2, 2016

Engaging Management in Risk Identification Processes

Scott Williams, Senior Director of ERM at the Lockheed Martin Corporation, shares techniques used across the organization to engage management in the identification of risks to the organization.

Apr 22, 2016

Taking a Strategic Approach to Emerging Risks

Bonnie V. Hancock, Executive Director of North Carolina State University's ERM Initiative, addresses techniques that might simplify the process of prioritizing risk.

Apr 1, 2016

Supply Chain Risk Management

Supplier management has recently emerged as an important area for risk management. As globalization has changed the business world drastically this past century, companies now have complex global networks from which they buy and sell products. Given this, Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business conducted research to determine supplier risk management practices. Their findings are based on interviews with 33 companies including KPMG, Johnson & Johnson, Coca Cola, and IBM to name a few. This abstract summarizes some of the key points in this document.

Mar 1, 2016

The Global Risk Report

Explore the World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report, analyzing top global risks like climate change and migration, and discover strategies to strengthen resilience in a shifting global landscape.