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Enterprise leaders have expanded their focus on AI technology, and more than 50% of executives plan to increase their investments in AI initiatives. However, the question remains What steps should companies take in the next 12 months to stay ahead of the competition — while protecting against pitfalls known and unknown?

Create a Risk Strategy built for success with this guide and free template

Effective risk management strategic planning connects your enterprise strategy to specific initiatives for your function. Done well, your risk management strategy should provide a clear roadmap to deliver on your business goals.

Use this Risk strategic planning guide to:

  • Build a clear, measurable risk strategic plan aligned to your organizational goals
  • Combat 7 costly planning mistakes to develop a robust and agile strategy for your Risk department
  • Capture and communicate your Risk strategy to stakeholders with a simple and visually impactful one-page template (exclusive feature)

Moving Toward Real-Time Assurance​

Risks are disrupting organizations more quickly than ever before, calling into question the strength of current risk assessment and audit planning approaches. While audit leaders have transformed their function to become more agile in the last decade, many realize they are not adequately leveraging data analytics, continuous risk assessment and partnerships with adjacent risk and control groups to get a more real-time view of the changing landscape. Adoption of real-time assurance requires three key imperatives: Enable real-time changes to the audit plan Process a broader set of information inputs in real time Enable auditors to make real-time scope changes in audit engagements

Risk Reporting That Drives Action

In today’s complex and dynamic risk environment, senior executives need actionable and relevant information to make quick decisions. To extract meaningful value out of risk information, enterprise risk management (ERM) leaders need to connect insights that align with the executives’ business objectives and help them understand what actions need to be taken as a result. Our research will help heads of ERM explore and answer the following questions: What prevents management from acting on risk information? How can I align risk information to other stakeholder information and objectives? How do I achieve decision influence where it counts? Fill out your information below to download Gartner's research on actionable risk reporting and checklist for building those reports.

How to Build a Successful Budgeting Framework for Your Risk Strategic Plan

Don’t kick-start your 2020 strategic plan without this step-by-step guide

Do you know what capabilities are most critical for your strategy execution? Are you allocating resources, budget and capacity to key initiatives?

Unlock part 2 of our strategic planning and budgeting essentials guide to receive:

  • Insights that help determine high-value functional capabilities most critical for strategic execution 
  • Checkliststo identify robust metrics to measure, track and execute against functional and organizational strategy
  • Peer examples to see how one major corporation uses a SMART framework to successfully articulate how its function delivers to the business

Download an excerpt of our 2023 audit plan hot spots report to explore 12 underlying hot spots, driven by three larger themes:

  • The “Triple Squeeze”
  • Renationalization
  • Rethinking Resilience

Moving Toward Real-Time Assurance​

Risks are disrupting organizations more quickly than ever before, calling into question the strength of current risk assessment and audit planning approaches. While audit leaders have transformed their function to become more agile in the last decade, many realize they are not adequately leveraging data analytics, continuous risk assessment and partnerships with adjacent risk and control groups to get a more real-time view of the changing landscape. Adoption of real-time assurance requires three key imperatives: Enable real-time changes to the audit plan Process a broader set of information inputs in real time Enable auditors to make real-time scope changes in audit engagements

Risk Reporting That Drives Action

In today’s complex and dynamic risk environment, senior executives need actionable and relevant information to make quick decisions. To extract meaningful value out of risk information, enterprise risk management (ERM) leaders need to connect insights that align with the executives’ business objectives and help them understand what actions need to be taken as a result. Our research will help heads of ERM explore and answer the following questions: What prevents management from acting on risk information? How can I align risk information to other stakeholder information and objectives? How do I achieve decision influence where it counts? Fill out your information below to download Gartner's research on actionable risk reporting and checklist for building those reports.