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Enterprise Risk Register and Risk Assessment

Maintain a decision-ready risk universe with consistent taxonomy, cause-event-impact logic, ownership, inherent and residual ratings, trends and review history.

Enterprise risk register and assessment workspace in Vilfora ERM
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core capabilities
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workflow stages
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target outcomes
The operating challenge

What this solution addresses

Vilfora ERM provides a controlled system of record for enterprise, business-unit, process, product and emerging risks. Each record connects the risk statement to causes, consequences, accountable ownership, assessment criteria, controls, indicators and treatment decisions so leadership can understand both exposure and response.

01

Different teams describe and score similar risks in inconsistent ways, preventing a reliable enterprise view.

02

Risk registers contain ratings but lack clear causes, consequences, control relationships and management decisions.

03

Periodic reviews overwrite prior assessments, making risk movement and rationale difficult to explain.

Within Vilfora ERM

Included capabilities

Each capability uses the same ownership, workflow, approval, evidence and audit-history foundation as the wider ERM platform.

CAPABILITY 01

Configurable risk taxonomy

Define categories, subcategories, principal risks and emerging-risk classifications suited to the organisation.

CAPABILITY 02

Structured risk statements

Capture causes, events, impacts, affected objectives, processes, products, locations and legal entities.

CAPABILITY 03

Consistent assessment

Apply approved likelihood, impact, velocity and control-effectiveness scales to inherent and residual risk.

CAPABILITY 04

Ownership and review

Assign risk owners, reviewers and approvers and retain the complete review and challenge trail.

CAPABILITY 05

Heat maps and profiles

Aggregate exposure by category, business unit and rating with drilldown to the supporting risk records.

From initiation to oversight

A governed end-to-end workflow

01

Identify

Capture a new or changed risk against the enterprise taxonomy and affected objectives.

02

Assess

Score inherent exposure using approved criteria and document the assessment rationale.

03

Map

Connect controls, indicators, incidents, obligations and related risks.

04

Evaluate

Determine residual exposure, treatment response and escalation requirements.

05

Review

Approve, monitor and periodically reassess the risk while preserving movement history.

Role-based participation

Who this solution supports

Enterprise risk managers
Risk owners
Business-unit heads
Executive management
Practical value

Outcomes the operating model is designed to support

01

Comparable risk assessments

02

Traceable rating rationale

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Live enterprise risk profile

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Clear treatment and escalation decisions

A demonstration shaped around your process

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We will focus on the records, participants, approvals, evidence and reporting decisions relevant to your operating model.

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