Enterprise Risk Management

  • 1.  Funding Risk Mitigation

    Posted 08-04-2009 05:24 PM
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    If you discover a new, urgent risk in your organization, how do you fund the cost of mitigation? 
    Does the affected business unit have to divert budget from other priorities?  Does the ERM function have any discretionary budget to allocate?  Does the C-level management make a decision to go outside of budget to address the problem?

    I vaguely recall reading about a company that created an internal "grant" process using the retained earnings in their captive to either pay for or provide incentives for risk mitigation.  Does anyone know which company did this, or is anyone doing something comparable?

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    Brian Warren
    Director - Risk Analysis
    Microsoft Corporation
    Redmond WA
    United States
    brianwar@microsoft.com
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