@Risk

PricewaterhouseCoopers recently published its 13th Annual Global CEO Survey, and the results show that business leaders are emerging from the recession with a healthy respect for risk, volatility and flexibility.

Not surprisingly, many of the 1,198 CEOs surveyed cited business concerns that relate to supply chain management. For instance, even though business leaders in the survey cited a protracted global recession as their biggest worry, they also voiced significant unease regarding government overregulation. In fact, more CEOs are ‘extremely concerned’ about over-regulation than any other threat to growth, and worries over protectionist tendencies are up ten percentage points over last year’s survey.

PwC also found that: (more…)

The economic downturn has provided a perfect storm of factors for business fraud, according to new research from PricewaterhouseCoopers.

In its 5th annual Global Economic Crime Survey, PwC identifies three factors that make fraud “inevitable”: (more…)

What  are the directors of leading companies focused on these days?

You guessed it: Risk.

In fact, according to the 8th Annual “What Directors Think” survey released last week by PricewaterhouseCoopers and Corporate Board Member magazine, 69%
of the directors polled believe that their risk has increased over the last year — a substantial jump from the 38% who answered so in 2008. (more…)