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Fewer Companies Realize Strategic Benefit from Risk Management Activities

Every spring, NC State’s ERM Initiative in partnership with the AICPA releases their State of Risk Oversight report. Data for the report is obtained through a survey sent to senior executives across a variety of industries this past fall. For this year’s report, 563 surveys were completed, which is a significant increase over prior years.…

8 Critically Important ERM Articles for Navigating Today’s New Reality

In this current environment, you want to make sure you are doing everything you can to ensure your company can not only weather the storm but emerge stronger on the other side. Just because many physical offices are closed doesn’t mean you should just sit on your hands waiting for things to open back up.…

7 Tips on Conducting a Successful Risk Appetite Workshop

A few months ago, I published an article outlining how risk professionals can develop engaging presentations and workshops. In the article, I discuss how ERM presentations are more than just a report, but instead a way to engage key stakeholders. Although a risk appetite workshop was used as an example in the previous article, a…

Why your Company Must Not Abandon ERM in These Trying Times

Wherever you are in the world, I hope this post finds you healthy and well in this difficult time. The COVID-19 pandemic is something most if not all of us have ever faced before. Before jumping into today’s post, a quick update on how my family and I are doing… Here in Florida, the number…

7 Tips for Reducing Business Continuity Risk for ERM

Here’s a situation that is all too common… A company hires a new director for ERM. This person’s job is to design and implement an ERM process for helping executives make risk-informed decisions and understand threats and opportunities to achieving strategic objectives. At some point, this ERM Director decides to leave the company and the…

Real-Life Example of Robust Enterprise Risk Management

Today we have a special guest – Hans Læssøe. As you may know, Hans’ perspective is something I reference often here on the blog. We finally got a chance to catch up! In this interview, Hans and I discuss his background, what led his former company, LEGO, to adopt ERM, and a few factors key…

Why Organizations Struggle with Key Risk Indicators and How to Make them Work

If done properly, key risk indicators (KRIs) can be a valuable tool for proactively managing risks to achieving strategic objectives. As I explain in a previous article, being proactive is one of the key differences between traditional and enterprise risk management. Despite their potential for facilitating the proactive management of risk, around 70% of organizations…

Top 20 Risk Management (…and Other) Resources for 2020

It’s hard to believe that a new decade is now upon us. The 2010s were an exhilarating time for me both personally and professionally… It was a decade ago when I assumed the role of building an ERM program from the ground up for a large Florida property insurance company. That experience led me to…

Why A Strong Governance Foundation is Vital to Successful ERM

When first speaking to an organization about ERM, executives know they have a problem, but they usually don’t know what it is, much less how to fix it. All they know is ERM is a possible solution. But before jumping in, I often find trouble spots that need to be addressed first. If they are…

ERM May Be Simple to Understand but It’s Not Easy

One name you see me refer to often is Hans Læssøe, author of the book Prepare to Dare, and former strategic risk manager for The LEGO Group. Hans is currently a consultant based in Denmark. Not only do I admire LEGO for its stellar assortment of models that both my son and I enjoy building,…

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