Risk

Reputational harm can do as much damage to a company's bottom line as nearly any other crisis. A proactive plan is essential to protect the organization should it come under fire. Silicon Valley based Theranos has found this out the hard way. The company's recent fall from grace is testament to the importance of a plan in the event of...

The type of due diligence a third party requires varies based upon the level of risk associated with each entity: low risk, medium risk or high risk. While some third parties can be vetted with global database checks or open-source investigations (OSI), the only way to confidently investigate high-risk third parties is with thorough vetting through enhanced due diligence.

The CRO of the Future is almost here. James Bone posits that before long, risk management professionals may be replaced by various “risk intelligent systems knowledgeware,” or RISK, able to process volumes of data in an instant, detect threats and respond to them just as quickly. Technology advances at breakneck speed, and so does our dependence on it to manage...

Some visions lead to groundbreaking innovation; others end up as no more than dramatic fantasies. And it can be difficult to tell in the beginning whether a new vision will be successful or ruinous. Tunnel vision is often the culprit when visions crash and burn… so how do we detect it while there’s still time to adjust focus and course...

Bad things can and do happen to good companies. It's why third-party due diligence and management is so important. Greg Dickinson, CEO of Hiperos, which specializes in third-party management software solutions, stresses the importance of really (truly) knowing your third parties. NOT knowing what third parties are up to is no kind of protection.

When identifying your organization's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, be prepared to ask the heard questions. Once you've got an honest and objective analysis at hand, then comes the hard part: putting your findings into action. Jim DeLoach offers a guide for getting the most out of a SWOT analysis.

Volkswagen, a long-trusted and highly respected brand, will be dealing with the fallout of its emission scandal for quite some time. It's clear to everyone that their massive deception is inexcusable, but we'd do well to remember that the hugest transgressions happen one failure in decision making at a time. Volkswagen's was likely born out of panic.

The good folks at On Call International have shared with the CCI community before about "duty of care," a company's responsibility for keeping its employees safe as they travel on business. This piece explores the other side of the issue: the employee's responsibility. Planning and crisis management only go so far if employees are willfully engaging in risky behavior.

When it comes to building enterprise value, the status quo doesn’t even have a place in the conversation. Value creation goes hand-in-hand with risk, but the risk management function doesn't have to stand in the way of innovation. Jim DeLoach suggests there are two ways of thinking about risk management within this context...

COSO's Enterprise Risk Management Integrated Framework has become something it was never intended to be; as a risk management standard, it fails for at once being too broad (robust risk management programs would be far more effective) and too narrow (in its focus on internal controls as the primary risk management tool). It's time to adopt a multidisciplinary approach.

Lots of change has taken place in risk management over the past three decades. The kinds of risks organizations are exposed to, the speed at which they must respond, the very way we approach enterprise risk management -- all look entirely different than they did in 1985. Jim DeLoach outlines where we've failed and what we can learn from those...

Author Jim DeLoach explores four themes for implementing enterprise risk management (ERM), noting that executives often ask two questions about ERM: “Where do we start?” and “What do we do differently?” These two questions demand a pragmatic response, which DeLoach provides in this compilation of thought leadership articles.