Better Business Performance and Improved Bottom-line through an integrated Enterprise wide Risk Management (ERM) program

This webinar with Michael Rasmussen, President of Corporate Integrity, will outline best practices and a step by step approach to implementing an enterprise wide risk management program.  A special focus of the webinar will be on leveraging ERM to improve the company debt ratings and developing solutions to managing ERM in the extended enterprise with a global supply chain.

Specific topics to be covered include:

• Laying the groundwork for strategic ERM: From Need, to Framework, to Process. Focus on key steps in defining and refining the overall ERM strategy
• Building a business case: How can corporate debt rating be improved through an integrated ERM aligned with S&P guidelines?
• Executing ERM strategy and implementing the framework: How critical is the technology in enabling ERM? What are the key features of the desired platform?
• ERM in the extended enterprise: Addressing the complexity of risk and compliance oversight by communicating policies, providing training, conducting assessments, and validation of 3rd party relationships through audits
• Industry Specific ERM issues and best practices: Current industry specific requirements, cross-industry regulatory requirements, and common methodologies to address them. Real world examples will be presented

The webinar will also include:

• Key ERM principles and components defined in risk standards such as COSO ERM as well as AS/NZS 4360:2004
• Demands of an extended enterprise including managing supply chains, compliance to the international labor standards, protection of trade secrets and IP, privacy assurance, management of geo-political risks, and regulatory compliance across industries as well as specific industry focused requirements such as the FDIC guidance to banks on managing 3rd party risk.
• Integration of Enterprise Risk Management and Internal Audit standards, methodologies, recommendations and legislation