COSO Enterprise Risk Management-Integrated Framework Update

The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) has unveiled an update to its Enterprise Risk Management – Integrated Framework and is seeking public comment of the proposal, from June 15 through Sept. 30. The update, Enterprise Risk Management — Aligning Risk with Strategy and Performance, is designed to address the needs of all organizations to improve their approach to managing new and existing risks as a way to help create, preserve, sustain, and realize value.

Link to COSO site: http://www.coso.org/ermupdate.html.

AFERM 2016 ERM Public Sector Survey

Federal ERM Practitioners,

We are pleased to announce the launch of the 2016 AFERM ERM Public Sector Survey.  This year, we hope to obtain feedback from 75+ practitioners from across the Federal government.  Co-sponsored with PwC, the survey will capture feedback from Federal risk management practitioners through their responses to a web-based questionnaire, followed by a number of in-person interviews.

Thank you for submitting your response and in helping make AFERM grow as a vibrant community of practice for all Federal ERM practitioners!

AFERM Communications Committee

Continue on to the FY16 Survey

Tom Stanton’s Interview of Nancy Potok, COO at the Census Bureau

Nancy Potok, PhD has been Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer of the Census Bureau since August 2012. Before that she served as Deputy Undersecretary for Economic Affairs at the Department of Commerce where she was part of a small group that decided to implement risk management at the department and at Census in particular.