Companies increasingly are taking an integrated view of risk, across risk types and functions, and linking their enterprise risk management (ERM) programs to strategic planning. Those are the conclusions of the 2013 CTC Guide to ERM,  underwritten by PwC.

This is not the typical Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) guide. Often, when financial executives read guides about ERM, those reports are in the form of a best-practices list under headings such as Oversight, Governance and Structure, and include checklists for factors such as Risk Identification and Assessment. This guide focuses instead on the experiences of five companies and their ERM programs. Based on extensive interviews with corporate risk practitioners and experts and including quantitative data, this practitioner's guide presents detailed examples of the ways in which companies have approached ERM and how their efforts provide valuable insight into leading ERM practices.