Enterprise Risk & Strategy
Use financial, operational, and external data to evaluate strategic choices, understand uncertainty, and decide where to commit resources.
How we can help
Combine leadership perspectives with operational and financial evidence. Examine gaps in the information and whether people feel able to report concerns candidly.
Help leadership articulate the uncertainty it is willing and able to accept.
Build a program around the organization’s objectives, structure, and culture, with clear authority and a way to address risks that cross departmental boundaries.
Select measures that show whether a strategy is working, exposure is changing, or a decision needs to be revisited.
Connect insurance decisions to the exposures the business has chosen to retain or transfer.
Identify who owns each control, how it is checked, and what happens when it falls short.
Test the assumptions behind a new business, investment, or service against available evidence, including what is missing and what could change the decision.
Bring operational experience to decisions that cross legal, technical, and business teams.
Illustrative engagement · Hypothetical
Inventory current and proposed AI uses, assess their purpose and potential consequences, and establish a review process proportionate to the risk. Address data use, privacy, vendor terms, validation, human oversight, and responsibility for monitoring performance and responding to concerns.
The work could produce: An AI use inventory, policies and approval criteria, assigned oversight responsibilities, and a monitoring process that identifies when to reassess, restrict, or stop a use.
Illustrative engagement · Hypothetical
Compare reported risks with operational and financial data, examine differences in what departments disclose, and connect priorities to business objectives, accountable owners, and resource decisions.
The work could produce: A prioritized register, action plans, and reporting measures tied to decisions and triggers for reassessment.
Illustrative engagement · Hypothetical
A new service, acquisition, or change in ownership can alter the company’s exposure. Review the insurance portfolio alongside those changes, the company’s contracts, and its risk appetite; then work with its broker to address the questions that need answers.
The work could produce: An exposure and coverage review, questions for the broker, and a renewal recommendation that explains the risk the business would retain.
Writing and references
Presentation materials on building an ERM program and connecting enterprise risk to leadership and board decisions.
Research funding, infrastructure costs, financial sustainability, and communicating institutional decisions to executives and boards. Read the presentation overview ↗
Examples exploring risk appetite, game theory, transparency, and how organizations interpret information.
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