Category: Management

In multiple reportsunder the umbrella title of Capitalizing on Complexity,IBM has produced wonderful guidance for CEO and other C-level executives in thinking about how they can be more effective leaders in a fast changing world. These are very well-designed, usefulreports, available in multiple languages:

In a world fraught with uncertainty, what are today's CEOs doing to strengthen their situations against competitors?

One of the more interesting excerpts from this short report by Deloitte:

Traditionally, the nominating and corporate governance committee focused on recruiting and board composition. However, the new era of corporate governance is broadening the committee’s role in developing and applying practices such as:

Excerpts from the Deloitte report (link below): Many issues compete for a place at the top of a company’s list of governance priorities,including the potential expansion of shareholder rights, regulatory demands for enhanced disclosure, and the oversight of risk management. However, we would argue there is no higher governance priority than ensuring you have the right people on the board.

The followingentry appeared as part of GovernanceMetrics International’s GMI Blog. GMI is the leading independent provider of global corporate governance and ESG ratings and research. Corporate stakeholders – including leading investors, insurers, auditors, regulators and others – use GovernanceMetrics services to identify and monitor risks related to non-financial measures covering key environmental, social, governance and […]

”　Achieving compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and similar anti-corruption legislative requirements has become an increasing concern for companies that operate globally. The number of FCPA-related enforcement actions and the size of penalties have increased dramatically over the last several years, affecting companies from all around the world.

(From Deloitte – download the full whitepaper below)- Reputation risk management is an even greater challenge today than a decade ago due to the increasingly global, interconnected, and interdependent nature of today’s marketplace, including exposure to a wide range of stakeholder opinions through social media.

Vonya Global released its second survey of global executives and internal auditors atprivate, public and non-profitorganizations, concerning their concerns about fraud risks, whether they are increasing or not, how to best deal with them, and other matters. Perhaps the most interesting result is that there is general agreement that roughly 5% of all global revenue is lost because of fraud.

Fascinating research paper with the above title. Few surprises here, but fascinating. Abstract:

Excerpt from entry in Harvard Law Blog by authors ofresearch paperwith the above title:

The Board and C-suite are asking hard questions about risk. And they are seeking better processes to manage uncertainty in a challenging economic and regulatory environment.