ERM - Enterprise Risk Management: Issues and Cases

Enterprise-wide risk management (ERM) is recognized as an important framework and tool for organizational leaders. By linking risk management directly to strategy, organizations are beginning to identify and treat risks that may not have been contemplated in traditional operational risk management processes. As implied by the ISO 31000 standard, the ERM process aims at optimizing the impact of uncertainty on any organization through a portfolio approach to both threats and opportunities.

In theory the concept of ERM is sound. However, many questions remain. How successful have other organizations been in their ERM implementation? What issues and problems are organizations facing in their ERM execution? How are others measuring the impact of ERM in their organizations given that there is not yet an agreed upon measurement of what represents a successful ERM programme?

ERM - Enterprise Risk Management: Issues and Cases provides practical answers to these questions. This book contains interviews with senior risk management professionals from organizations that are in various stages of ERM implementation. It also includes case studies that provide the reader with insight on how to begin, maintain, and evaluate the effectiveness of an ERM programme. In addition to these case studies and interviews, the contributing authors provide suggested solutions to some of the problems that have vexed enterprise risk managers, including ethics, group dynamics, identifying and managing strategy, disturbances and business continuity, adequate and relevant data, risk to reputation, communication, and governance and compliance.

Written for the practicing risk professional and those who aspire to enter the risk profession, this book provides an extensive bibliography for further study as well as empirical evidence that can be used as a starting point for further research.