Posts by Carol Williams

Carol Williams

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Risk Monitoring: 6 Considerations for Understanding this Make or Break Moment for ERM

Michael Rasmussen, an internationally recognized author and expert on governance, risk management, and compliance, explains: Organizations take risks all the time but fail to monitor and manage these risks effectively in an environment that demands agility. It is not surprising then to see how risk monitoring is considered a “big win” by many… This article…

One Scarcely Mentioned Way Social Media Can Damage an Organization’s Reputation (…and how to address it)

Now that we’re over a decade from when the first IPhone hit the market in 2007, it’s becoming clear the impact social media can have on an organization’s reputation. Generally speaking, reputation is more significant in today’s world in large part due to the lightning speed at which news can spread. To illustrate the growing…

What are Organizations’ True Barriers to Implementing ERM?

My posts for this month (May 2019) have focused on results from the 2019 State of Risk Oversight report from NC State. Each of these posts (see here and here) not only reported survey results but also included additional commentary based on my experience. Up to this point, I had no reason to challenge anything…

Organizations Across-the-Board Report Increasing Risk Volume and Complexity

In my first post analyzing NC State’s latest State of Risk Oversight report, we discussed how more organizations are designating a Chief Risk Officer. In this post, I want to take some time to discuss another significant observation from this year’s survey – the volume and complexity of risk. The ERM Initiative in partnership with…

Chief Risk Officer: An Increasingly Vital Role in Effective Risk Oversight

The 2019 State of Risk Oversight report from NC State recently came out with some interesting results about the current state of risk management leadership in organizations. The report breaks down results into four different industry-categories – large organizations, public companies, financial institutions, and not-for-profit. Over the last five years, nonprofits have seen the biggest…

The Board’s Role in Risk Oversight and Why It’s Important

A majority of articles here on the blog focus on the process of ERM for anyone involved in their organization’s strategy-setting and day-to-day operations. While learning about processes like risk identification, assessment, and reporting is important, there are other risk-related activities in the organization that are equally important, namely the oversight of risk by the…

Why ERM Often Fails to Add Value to Decision-Making

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadYou are working hard to help your organization build an effective enterprise risk management program. You’ve spoken with all the business units, identified their significant “risks” and assessed them, come up with numerous risk registers, developed detailed risk reports for executives, and so on. Yet, people still don’t seem…

ISO 31000 vs. COSO – Comparing and Contrasting the World’s Leading Risk Management Standards

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThere’s no doubt among risk professionals… ISO 31000 and COSO are the two leading risk management standards in the world today. I previously discussed the fundamentals and background of each standard – check out the separate articles on ISO 31000 and COSO. As promised, the purpose of this article…

Traditional vs. ERM – Going Beyond One-Dimensional Risk Assessment

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadIn my popular article on traditional vs. enterprise risk management, one distinct difference is how traditional risk management assesses risk from only one-dimension or point-of-view. In most cases, the use of a one-dimensional view is strongly connected to insurable risks and determining the potential impact or loss from a…

Decision Focused Risk Management is not that Different

By Hans Læssøe To many risk managers, who have spent years identifying, analysing and mitigating risks, the concept of decision focused risk management may seem very different, daunting or even somewhat scary. However, despite the inherent differences, the change is not as big as it may appear at first. Yes, there are differences. Let me…

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