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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.

Embedding Risk Considerations in Strategic Planning and Budgeting

Sep 4, 2024

ERM Tool: Embedding Risk Considerations in Strategic Planning and Budgeting

Download our tool to help business leaders incorporate risk considerations into their strategic plans and budget requests with targeted questions.

Aug 20, 2024

Maturity of Risk Management Practices

We offer five questions to help risk leaders guide discussions with executives and boards to assess and enhance risk management maturity.

Assessing How Org Culture Impacts Risk Mgt

Jun 19, 2024

ERM Tool: Assessing How Organizational Culture Impacts Risk Management

Download our tool to understand how your organization's unique culture can either support or hinder effective enterprise-wide risk management.

Core Strategic Drivers

May 6, 2024

ERM Tool: Understanding the Organization’s Core Strategic Drivers

Download this tool to discover how an effective ERM program highlights risks and drives strategic success with a clear understanding of your organization's key initiatives.

PESTLE Analysis

Apr 9, 2024

ERM Tool: Using PESTLE Analysis to Identify Potential External Risks

A PESTLE analysis provides a framework for considering risks that may be triggered by political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental factors. Download this tool.

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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.

Jul 20, 2023

Why the disconnect? Risks are Everywhere; Risk Management is Not

The 14th edition of The State of Risk Oversight, a report produced jointly by the AICPA & CIMA, together as the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants, and the ERM Initiative at North Carolina State University, shows that the volume and complexity of risks continues to be prominent on the radar of leaders at U.S. organizations of all types and sizes. However, complete and formal ERM processes are just as common now as five years ago, after the survey showed nearly a decade of increased interest in ERM. Mark Beasley, CPA, Ph.D., a professor at N.C. State and director of the school's ERM Initiative, analyzes the disconnect, explains why a post-pandemic sigh of relief is not a good sign for risk managers, and shares some of the questions that organizations can ask themselves to improve their ERM practices.

Jun 7, 2023

Enhancing Risk Insights by Integrating ESG Perspectives

This thought paper, "Enhancing Risk Insights by Integrating ESG Perspectives: An Opportunity for ERM Leaders," is intended to help ERM leaders and other executives enhance their organization’s risk insights by strengthening the integration of their ERM and ESG efforts. The paper is based on interviews with ERM leaders who shared insights not only about challenges related to integrating ESG into their ERM processes but also suggestions of a number of opportunities leaders can consider to reap the benefits that can be realized through enhanced ESG considerations.