How to build an organisation in which everyone incorporates risk considerations into every decision—and why that’s crucial to long-term success.

By Roger Dunkin | September 21, 2020

The Internal Revenue Service launched a new channel for employees to confidentially raise concerns and risks to agency leadership. The agency has one of the most mature enterprise risk management (ERM) programmes in government—and this is its latest move to promote a risk-aware culture. By empowering its workforce to spot and elevate issues as they arise, the IRS has prepared itself to recognise and address threats before they turn into problems for the agency.