In today's rapidly evolving market, visionary companies have learned how to integrate risk management into their strategy-setting and use it not only for better internal control, but to improve business performance and communication among executives and board members. Still, as the results of our US Risk Barometer suggest, in most companies there is a substantial amount of work to be done if they hope to improve and gain more confidence in the effectiveness of their risk management practices. Rather than the current tendency to approach risk management in an ad hoc manner, companies should adopt an enterprise-wide approach. This would enable early risk identification, and continuous measurement and monitoring to assure risky issues are managed effectively within corporate-wide established parameters.
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