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Risk Identification and Assessment

Feb 1, 2015

Research Report on Executive Perspectives of Top Risks for 2015

Explore the top risks facing businesses in 2015 from the "Executive Perspectives on Top Risks" report, with insights into regulatory changes, cybersecurity threats, talent retention, and evolving customer preferences. Learn how these emerging risks impact business strategies.

Nov 1, 2014

An ERM Leader’s Strategy For Success

Explore strategies for risk leaders to implement ERM programs using diplomatic approaches, emphasizing communication and relationship-building to overcome resistance and foster executive support.

Oct 1, 2014

Mature Supply Chain Risk Management Yields Better Performance

Discover how mature supply chain and risk management processes enhance resilience and operational performance. This PwC-MIT study reveals key strategies for navigating global supply chain risks.

Jun 13, 2014

The Necessity of Rapid Response for Resilience

Learn how resilient companies ensure rapid response to crises through empowered teams, decisive actions, and rehearsed plans, drawing from insights in the "Roads to Resilience" report.

Jan 1, 2014

Value Killers in the Current Risk Environment

Explore Deloitte's study on the root causes behind major stock value losses, revealing key risk factors like liquidity, interdependencies, and compensation culture, along with strategies to mitigate these risks and shorten recovery time.

Jan 1, 2014

Executive View of Strategic Risk

Learn how global businesses approach strategic risk, manage reputation threats, and adapt to technology disruptors. Insights from Deloitte's and Forbes’ study on evolving risk management practices.

Jan 1, 2014

Learning from Risk Management Mistakes

The Conference Board’s 2014 report reveals key failures in corporate risk management during the financial crisis and offers recommendations to improve board-level oversight and risk identification.

Jan 1, 2014

The Importance of Integrating Risk Management with Strategy

A recent thought paper, 10 Lessons in Integrating Risk Management with Strategy by Protiviti uses examples of both corporate failures and successes to learn what helped those that survived and thrived reach different outcomes than those that failed and disappeared. The thought paper provides lessons learned as well as tools and techniques executives can use to improve their company’s chances of surviving and thriving in an ever-changing world. The thought paper finds that surviving and thriving companies were able to respond to a pending crisis because they integrate risk into their strategic discussions, allowing them to react quickly enough to take advantage of emerging opportunities.

Nov 1, 2013

An Insight into the Benefits of Risk Maturity

Aon’s 2013 Risk Maturity Index Report reveals how mature risk management correlates with better financial performance, including higher stock prices, return on equity, and enhanced resiliency.

Sep 1, 2013

Preparing for a Black Swan Event

Black Swan events are traditionally thought to be rare, random, and high-impact events, but recent history suggests that Black Swan events are happening more frequently while maintaining their unpredictability and catastrophic characteristics. A recent thought paper by Ernst & Young explains the benefit of preparing for a Black Swan event, identifies broad-based principles to implement prior to an event, and describes protocols to follow when responding to the event. Due to a Black Swan’s unpredictability, a flexible and broad-based approach to prepare and respond to such an event is necessary to mitigate its impact and facilitate a speedy recovery. The paper provides valuable insights to help your enterprise prepare for the unexpected.