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Don’t waste time managing risks

Risk management as a concept is undergoing changes, as most everything else. New developments and an ever-increasing speed of change adds and changes the demands for risk management- both in terms of what to do, and how to do it. The world is changing faster than ever before – and anxiety as to the speed…

3 Easy Steps to Ensure an Optimal Outcome for Enterprise Risk Management

You have been asked to meet a deadline to accomplish a given goal for enterprise risk management in your organization. What is the first thing you do? You instantly start making a list of all the necessary steps (doesn’t matter whether the list is electronic, hard-copy, or a mental list). Then you put those steps…

Traditional vs. ERM – 3 Steps to Move from Loss Prevention to Focused on Organizational Success

One point I discuss at a high-level in my flagship article comparing traditional and enterprise risk management is the difference in what each focuses on. In this article, I’m going to dive a little deeper into this difference with a real world example and how executives and practitioners can move from focusing strictly on loss…

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…

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…

Expanding your Abilities with the Growth Mindset

While traveling to a client site last week, I had a really interesting conversation with an attorney sitting next to me on a flight from Atlanta (…I can’t fly anywhere without going through Atlanta first). She talked about a book she had read that talked about grit and a Growth Mindset, which got me thinking……

7 Questions for Understanding the Fundamentals of Risk Appetite

The concept of risk appetite is probably the most confusing and controversial part of the enterprise risk management process. If you do a search for risk appetite, you will find a wide variety of perspectives on how to develop and use it. While there may be an implied risk appetite or a generic statement on…

Top 19 Risk Management Resources for 2019

This time last year, I wrote a well-received article providing my favorite 18 risk management resources. Well, it is time to provide a new list of 19 resources as you start making progress towards achieving your 2019 goals for risk management. Over the recent months, I have really focused on expanding my skills outside of…

The Ultimate Primer for Effective Risk Reporting

A mechanism for ensuring leadership, business managers, and other stakeholders make risk-informed decisions and fulfill oversight duties At the end of the day, the ERM process should be regarded as a cycle or feedback loop…meaning, there’s never a definitive end point. It’s like the four seasons of the year – there’s never an end point,…

ERM Implementation: What Risk Professionals Consider the #1 Challenge To Be

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadI recently asked of fellow risk professionals “what is your single biggest challenge when it comes to ERM implementation?” What do you think the answers were? Maybe figuring out how to assess risks? Maybe integrating with strategy? Or aggregation of risks? Nope. Tone at the top! Yes, the executives…

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