Strategic risk

Risk transformation can enable a company to elevate risk management from a functional capability to an enterprise responsibility that permeates the entire organization. When that happens, risk is no longer seen as the domain of only the risk management function. Instead, every business, function, and individual becomes accountable for and capable of addressing the risks within their purview. This enables the organization to more effectively implement strategies and achieve goals while addressing risks and complying with regulations.

This publication outlines challenges and methods of implementing transformation of strategic risk, and explores steps to elevate risk as a means of powering performance enterprise-wide. Learn more about:

• Strategic risks and “value killer” risks, and why they are difficult to identify, measure, and manage
• How risk sensing and other technologies can assist organizations in detecting and tracking strategic risks
• Why preparing responses to strategic risk events is useful, even though the actual events can rarely be predicted
• Why simply meeting regulatory requirements or confining risk management to the function with that name leaves a company exposed
• The roles of the business units, risk management, and internal audit in risk transformation
  
  As this publication explains, customers, investors, regulators, and other stakeholders do not expect management and the board to predict future events. But they do expect them to prepare the organization to recognize and respond to strategic risk events.