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COSO ERM

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New ERM Guidance from COSO

Creating and Protecting Value: Understanding and Implementing Enterprise Risk Management is based on COSO’s 2017 update of its 2004 ERM Framework. Their intent is to explain how effective ERM can add value to an organization, and to give some guidance on how to implement or upgrade it.

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Uniting risk management with strategic planning

Who can argue that the consideration of what might happen (what some refer to as risk) should be part of the strategic planning process? Objectives and strategies should be set only after thinking carefully about where you are, what is happening around you, and what may happen in the future.

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The updated ISO risk management standard merits our attention

Neither the ISO nor the COSO updates will, in my opinion, move the understanding and practice of ‘risk management’ to where they need to be. The updates are small steps when leaps were required.

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