This issue of Board Perspectives: Risk Oversight provides a context for understanding the most critical uncertainties companies are facing as they move forward into 2018.

The overall message is that the rapid pace of change in the global marketplace provides a risky environment for entities of all types to operate. For those organizations choosing not to disrupt the status quo actively, their challenge is to be agile enough to react quickly as an early mover. And as we’ve noted before, not enough organizations are.