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16 Essential Questions to Ask for Effective Scenario Planning

At a high level, the ultimate goal of scenario planning is to help executives better understand the impacts of new goals and objectives to ensure the goals set out in the organization’s strategic plan are the right ones. Why use scenario planning? It is an effective tool to discover and test assumptions to ensure executives…
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ERM: The Non Risk-Centric Approach

I published an article last week on risk monitoring and how critical it is to the success of ERM. Not only did the article provide a definition of risk monitoring, it also went in to some detail on why it’s important, why it must be approached with care, methods for risk monitoring, reporting, and other…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Meet Carol

​As an enterprise risk management consultant, my goal – and a real passion! – is ensuring companies have the tools they need to identify and properly manage threats and opportunities to business objectives ... Read More

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