By Bryan Richardson
At IBM, enterprise risk management begins at the top and goes to the performance appraisal as well.
Despite a good decade of hype, enterprise risk management (ERM) is perhaps one of the newest disciplines inside of corporate America. In fact, it is so new that most non-financial companies have no program, much less an effective one. And those that do have a program continue to labor at getting their arms around what it should look like, how it should work and how to educate the broader company on the concept.