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We liked Deloitte's Risk Intelligence Prism before, but this new rendition of it makes it even more easy-to- understand and user-friendly. You can turn and manipulate it in orderto explore risk from various angles:
This is a good technique. It sets a good base for discussion in any company.
Deloitte has published a useful report on how to identifies ways to promote sustainability as part of corporate strategy:
Introduction:
Tomorrow's Company has published this well-written and convincing Manifesto setting forth the case for Stewardship, which is broader conceptwhich mayhave more policy impact than acronymwords like SRI, CSR or ESG:
(PDTI has received this apt comment from a viewer who prefers to remain anonymous)
In regards to Subsidiary (in the US) versus US Public Company responsses to JSOX/SOX deficiencies: US Company Execs seem quite accepting of having a handful of minor deficiencies found each quarter as long as there are no significant deficiencies or material weaknesses. They treat these minor deficiencies as a method of improvement to deal with […]
Although there were not enough foreign respondents to BDTI's survey on attitudes by them towards corporate governance to make the results statistically significant, we did get 72 respondents and a number of insights and interesting contrasts.
The full-fledged (prior) response results from Japanese participantsare summarized at bottom below.Below, are some ofthe intriguing highlightsandcontrasts from the survey of foreigners.
Bob Eberhart, a Professor at Stanford's SPRIE and the Stanford Project on Japanese Entrepreneurship, gave an excellent presentation toa group of us this week. You can download his materials at:
Here in Japan, the extreme importance of risk intelligence – taking on the right amount of risk andunderstanding, avoiding andmanaging the rest – has been made blazingly clear in recent months. These report make clear what are the practices that can be used to optimize risk intelligence, and what are the benefits.
GENERAL PRACTICE
Board Leadership (May 2011)
http://bdti.mastertree.jp/f/vcxe3zjl
Fueling the Succession Pipeline(April 2011)
(From Robert A.G. Monks' blog, http://www.ragm.com .)
And the answer is…. I still don't know
These two recent reports by Deloitte seem to fit together like hand and glove.
The first, Board Leadership: A Global Perspective, describes the emerging trends in various major markets around the world with respect to the roles of CEO, Chairman (split roles or same person? independent Chairman?) and lead directors, etc.