10Minutes on environmental and social risk
Recent events have sharpened the focus on risk. Effective risk management is now seen as one of the most important components of growth. Where does your organization stand?
Conflict minerals
10Minutes on conflict minerals provides insight into the strategic benefits and risks companies will want to focus on as they comply with the SEC's conflict minerals rule. The rule is effective for 2013 calendar year operations, so regardless of whether companies view conflict minerals as a supply chain opportunity, risk to their brand or another regulatory to-do, they should act now to prepare.
Stark realities of cybersecurity
This 10Minutes discusses why cybersecurity is more than an IT challenge—it’s a business imperative. New technologies, well-funded and determined adversaries, and interconnected business ecosystems have combined to increase your company’s exposure to cyberattacks. Critical digital assets are being targeted and the potential impact to your business has never been greater. In order to sufficiently protect the business, future cash flows, and shareholder value, your approach to cybersecurity must keep pace.
Environmental and social risk
Environmental and social issues are posing greater commercial risks than ever. In this 10Minutes we'll explore what's changing and how companies can take a more forward-looking risk approach.
APEC 2012 CEO Summit: Economic integration an imperative for continued economic growth
For the continued economic growth of the APEC territories, the need for economic integration, both between the APEC territories, and beyond is established reality. The fastest growing APEC economies will account for about two-thirds of overall APEC trade, up from about half in 2011.
Eurozone sovereign debt crisis: Minimizing surprises despite Eurozone uncertainties
How will the effects of the European debt crisis impact US businesses? PwC shares its views on what companies can do to manage the changes that lie ahead.
APEC 2012 CEO Summit: Food security: Can APEC feed itself?
Increasing agricultural production on a sustainable basis is key to long term food security in the region. PwC's report offers CEO insights on this and other topics .
Business continuity management
The best disaster survival manual may be obsolete if it doesn’t anticipate major disruptions to the supply chain or at outsourced operations. As a result, business continuity management programs are being designed to continually assess— as well as counter—risks stemming from the interdependencies integral to running a business.
Risk in review 2012: Rethinking risk management for new market realities
Companies everywhere are rethinking risk management in the light of new market realities, according to PwC’s 2011 global risk survey, which also breaks down results by region.
PwC 2012 State of the Internal Audit Profession Study
PwC’s 8th annual examination of the internal audit profession, focuses on this rising importance of risk management and internal audit's contribution by taking a closer look at how stakeholders and board members view critical risks and the role internal audit could be playing.
WSJ CEO Council: Addressing scarcity and growth
For companies able to manage risks, resource scarcity will create opportunities.
Combating cybercrime: The general counsel’s role
Cyberattacks aren’t just an information technology matter. Legal obligations, damages to the organization, and business relations with customers all come into play. Often the last to know, it is imperative that general counsel be the first on the cybercrime scene. They can play a pivotal role in protecting an organization if they act promptly when a company’s systems have become compromised.
Governance, risk and compliance webcast series
You’re invited to join PwC's webcast series which focuses on ways to help your company improve governance, risk and compliance, and achieve the right balance between risk and return.
Broader perspectives; higher performance. State of Compliance: 2012 Study
PwC and Compliance Week teamed up to survey over 120 senior-level compliance executives at leading U.S. companies. The resulting report summarizes the findings of the study and provides selected benchmarking data in four key areas: Compliance organization scope and support; effectiveness; technology and resources and reporting.
Doing business in a changing China
As the fastest-growing major economy in the world, China continues to offer global companies attractive investment and business opportunities, but doing business there also means navigating the complexities that arise from China’s unique historical, political, and cultural contexts. Despite the challenges, what are leading US companies doing to succeed in China? For one, they're developing collaborative relationships with Chinese stakeholders and demonstrating the agility to continuously adapt their strategies to the country’s dynamic environment. What other steps are they taking?
Information security
Emerging technologies like cloud computing and social media are growing more sophisticated, but so are hacker techniques. As companies look at growth initiatives and ways to hold down costs, what should CIOs do to protect critical data and avoid other information security risks?
How CFOs should audit the cloud balance sheet
Initially viewed simply as a way to create more agile, efficient IT organizations, cloud computing is fast becoming the means for a new type of growth based on an opportunity that PwC calls the extensible enterprise. How can CFOs use cloud computing to help the enterprise grow, while dealing with the new challenges it presents around governance, risk, and compliance?
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