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Time to wake up to risk reality

For 11 years, the ERM Initiative at North Carolina University has surveyed executives (this year they were again all financial executives) about what they call “the current state of risk oversight processes in organizations of all types and sizes to obtain an understanding of the relative maturity of underlying activities executives and boards use to monitor the rapidly changing risk landscape”.

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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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KPMG studies ERM and gets some things right but misses the key point

There’s some good material in KPMG’s Enterprise Risk Management Benchmarking Study, subtitled Evolving to an active, integrated and agile approach amidst change and disruption.

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