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Source: The Institute of Internal Auditors “Today’s business environment is characterized by mounting pressures for stronger, more effective risk management. There is a sharp focus on risk oversight, considered by many observers to be the top governance issue facing corporate boards in a post-meltdown world. Audit committees are pushing for holistic risk management, stepped-up risk [...]

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Protecting and enabling performance, Report 2009 Source: Ernst & Young, partner of PRIMO Europe Introduction Albeit painful, progress ultimately results from crisis. The current downturn is causing companies to challenge their risk management processes and ask how they can further improve their risk management efforts. Against this backdrop, we conducted a survey to provide a [...]

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Source: Ernst & Young, partner of PRIMO Europe Information serves as an integral part of most business processes. Organizations cannot survive without information and the supporting systems, third parties and manual activities that collect, derive, process, store and make available the information. Organizations rely on information and, therefore, are at risk when the information is [...]

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Source: © Airmic, Alarm, IRM Executive Summary ‘Risk management is an increasingly important business driver and stakeholders have become much more concerned about risk. Risk may be a driver of strategic decisions, it may be a cause of uncertainty in the organisation or it may simply be embedded in the activities of the organisation. An [...]

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Report of the Parliamentary Committee Inquiry Financial System Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal (House of Representatives, Netherlands Parliament), 10 May 2010 From the report: “Background to and structure of the inquiry In 2007, the world was shocked by the rapid increase of problems in the financial sector, which were caused largely by problems in the mortgage [...]

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This a driving forces for increased focus on risk management in public sector. Conclusions of our survey. A survey of over 200 public entity organisations across has found that the need to deal with catastrophic and project risks is driving an increased focus on risk management by public entities. Over half the respondents to the [...]

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Source: Scientific Council for Government Policy. The Hague, 2008 Introduction by Wim van de Donk “It is an honour for me to be able to welcome you to this seventh edition of our annual lecture. As you have seen, the theme we have chosen for this year’s lecture is : ‘Saving globalization from its cheer- [...]

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Source: KPMG International “In a world of ever changing challenges companies are shifting away from risk management approaches and toward an approach that has learning and innovation at its heart. Reporting is necessity if companies are to know and understand their social and environmental impacts, and how to minimize the dangers and maximize the opportunities [...]

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Every city and village in Europe, and with them politicians and managers, will be confronted with the financial crisis by the way policies and projects can and will be forecasted and budgetted. The flooding of the risk crisis is not yet over. The water level is still high. And when the “water” falls to its [...]

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“What challenges are likely to affect your company in 2009 and beyond? The credit crunch aftershocks and the deepening global recession, rank as the most important business risks for 2009, displacing regulation and compliance from the top spot. Green initiatives, competition from new entrants, human capital issues, and reputational risk all rose in the new [...]

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