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Enterprise Risk Management Initiative

Risk Culture

Yvette Connor

Mar 1, 2023

Integrating ERM and Strategy

Yvette Connor, Principal and Risk Advisory, National Strategic and Enterprise Risk Practice Leader with Grant Thornton, LLC shares her insights about the importance of the integration of ERM and strategy.
Zach Wolff

Feb 6, 2023

Identifying Long-Term Risks

Zach Wolff, director of ERM and SOX internal controls, ConEdison, shares how his organization engages business leaders across the company to identify potential issues that may reflect longer-term emerging enterprise-level risks.

Sep 27, 2022

2022 Global State of Enterprise Risk Oversight

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

Jul 12, 2022

2022 The State of Risk Oversight: An Overview of Enterprise Risk Management Practices – 13th Edition

This 2022 State of Risk Oversight Report highlights over 40 different aspects of risk management practices that readers can use to benchmark their risk management processes along several dimensions.

Jul 6, 2022

Five Actions to Build a Resilient Organization

The 2021 Deloitte Global Resilience Report explores how to strengthen resilience in your organization to be prepared to overcome disruptions and thrive amid extreme circumstances. Through 2,260 interviews with public- and private-sector CXOs in 21 countries, the report identifies five organizational characteristics common to companies that have proven to adapt, bounce back, and persist amid disruption: preparation, adaptability, collaboration, trust and responsibility. This article translates those characteristics into practical, actional steps for leaders to build resilient organizations.

Jun 30, 2022

Practical Tips to Prepare for Disruption

Disruption is a part of life and business, and business leaders are often tasked with making important decisions amid uncertainty. Based on insights from its research, Gallup published a set of practical tips for leaders to effectively prepare their organizations to withstand disruptions.

May 23, 2022

Running the Risk: What it Takes to be a Chief Risk Officer (CRO)

This article, "Running the Risk: What it Takes to be a Chief Risk Officer (CRO)" by Samantha Beavers discusses the important attributes of an effective chief risk officer (CRO).
Paula Herman

Feb 10, 2022

Managing Talent and Culture Risks

Paula Herman of Mecklenburg County Government shares insights about her views of the kinds of big-picture risks concerns for most organizations.

Feb 8, 2022

How to Adapt to Thrive in the New Normal

Shocks like economic recessions and global pandemics can result in long-lasting behavioral changes that impact businesses. The Covid-19 pandemic is the most recent reminder that companies prepared to reassess their opportunities, adapt their business models and reallocate investments amid a crisis are the winners.

Feb 8, 2022

Imagining Unimaginable Risks

Risks take a variety of forms, many of which companies can proactively manage. But novel risks are much more difficult to predict and plan for and they may seem improbable, emerge from a perfect storm of events, or are unprecedentedly massive. In their 2020 Harvard Business Review article, "The Risks You Can't Foresee," authors Robert S. Kaplan, Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard and Annette Mikes define novel risks and then describe how to detect and respond to them to mitigate the risk impact on the business.