The ultimate goal of enterprise risk management is to evaluate total returns relative to total risks, leading to more informed business decisions. This sample report provides findings from a review of a company’s enterprise risk assessment.

Sample enterprise risk management (ERM) design principles include: clear objectives – define the primary objectives of the risk management process; integrated – integrate the process with the core business activities; risk culture – determine whether the organization’s culture will help or obstruct the implementation process to ascertain the extent of needed change; infrastructure – determine the enhancements to infrastructure that are needed; specific – align the analytical risk assessment approach with the unique characteristics of the risk the company faces; risk ownership – assign ownership of the risk assessment process to the managers who are best positioned to achieve actionable results; and executive sponsorship – support the ERM implementation from the top.