Impact Value

Impact Value

I tried something different last week. I posted a “musing” on LinkedIn. It was an excerpt from my book Risky Business: How Successful Organisations Embrace Uncertainty that read

Risk management isn’t rocket science. It’s about managing uncertainty.
And, done well, it delivers real value for organisations.

It sparked quite a lot of activity including some discussion on how to value the risk function. Here are a couple of my replies on the topic:

To Norman Marks:

“Re the value of ERM, I have found some limited academic research (see references below) on the value of ERM that does show a correlation between good ERM practices and firm value - however my usual answer is along the lines of yours. Like Internal Audit, the fact senior leaders invest in it and appreciate the service being provided is evidence of value.”

References:

Hoyt, Robert E., and Liebenberg, Andrew P. ‘Evidence of the Value of Enterprise Risk Management’, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, vol. 27, no. 1, Winter 2015.

Lechner, Philipp, and Gatzert, Nadine. ‘Determinants and Value of Enterprise Risk Management: Empirical Evidence from Germany’, European Journal of Finance, vol. 24, no. 10, 2018

AND

To Sabrina Segal:

“Thanks for asking the eternal question. I usually start off with something like "that's easy" and soon start talking about running your organisation in an alternate universe alongside this one. People get that it is not easy.

If you have a look at the post from Norman Marks on in this thread, I commented about value - so you could as a minimum quote that academic research.

Another approach you could take is to develop a decision register (Richard Thaler recommends this in his book Nudge I think). For each decision, the level/quality of consideration of risk would need to be assessed. You would do this across a range of governance committees and overtime you should see a pattern develop.

Other than that, focus on delivering value, earning trusted adviser status and what you need should be provided.

Good luck!"

Two observations. Firstly, there were lots of comments about how difficult it is to tangibly measure the value of the risk function. Secondly, it is a universal challenge. Norman is in the US and Sabrina is in Egypt.

As always, I’d be interested to hear your views.

Stay safe and make change.

Hans L?ss?e

Take chances - intelligently

3 年

Measure the value of risk management ... Back testing, back testing and back testing. So ... 1) Define your scope (decision, project, strategy, ...) 2) Do your risk management (identify, analyse, act, monitor) 3) Look at what actually DID happen 4) Analyse. With the things that did happen on to accounts. 4.1) How did they affect your performance with risk management 4.2) What would have been the performance consequences if you had not mitigated/acted on this in time (assuming you did something) 4.3) Define the costs of doing risk management 5) Calculate the results like V = 4.1 - 4.2 - 4.3 I have done this a number of times, and have never, live in not even once, been close to an outcome that suggested risk management was not well worth it. In most cases the V exceeded 4.3 more than tenfold. If your risk management approach is based on eliminating or minimizing each and every risk identified, you may spend more than you save. Start with something very tangible, like a well defined project. Once you have done it here, you can gradually expand into making this standard operating procedure until you fell confident enough to simply trust the value and always deploy intelligent risk taking.

Bryan Whitefield

I empower leaders to cultivate high-performance teams making faster and better decisions | Recognised expert in strategy and risk | Expert facilitator and trainer and sought-after mentor | MAICD, MRMIA & CCRO

3 年
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