Make risk more actionable across your business with intelligent risk management
Risk is moving faster than traditional programs were designed to manage. Many organizations are still managing risk through discrete programs, point-in-time reviews and reporting cycles that struggle to keep up. Over time, this siloed approach creates a hidden tax on the business as controls are rebuilt across frameworks and evidence is re-collected from the same owners.
What is intelligent risk management?
Intelligent risk management (IRM) is RSM’s proprietary methodology for turning risk information into business action. It connects the operating model for risk information, bringing together ownership, controls, evidence, issue management, reporting and technology into a single coordinated approach.
By combining RSM’s risk advisory experience, connected technology ecosystem and strategic alliances, IRM helps teams manage risk as a shared enterprise challenge and move from disconnected activity to clearer insight, decisions and next steps.
Integrated risk management vs Intelligent risk management
Integrated risk management
Integrated risk management helps organizations consolidate risk data into a single view.
Intelligent risk management
Intelligent risk management goes further by connecting the way risk is owned, evidenced, monitored, reported, and acted on across the business.
What sets Intelligent risk management apart:
Start with the risk management challenge in front of you
Most organizations begin with the trigger already in front of them. RSM consultants infuse IRM into a risk strategy where the friction already exists and expand the operating model from there.
What are your top concerns?
If you want to show more business value from risk while keeping pace with regulations, IRM can help create a single enterprise risk view aligned to strategy, giving leaders clearer priorities and more risk-informed decision support.
If audit work is being duplicated across programs or material issues are hard to see, IRM can help connect audit planning to one shared control inventory and issue register, so teams can reduce repeated work and focus on higher-priority risks.
If SOX compliance costs are rising and financial control assurance feels harder to sustain, IRM can help connect financial controls to enterprise risk on a test-once, report-many basis, reducing duplication while supporting dependable assurance.
If your GRC program needs to keep pace with regulatory change, third-party risk and evolving business priorities, IRM can help connect governance, controls, obligations and reporting into one coordinated model with clearer ownership and stronger oversight.
If cybersecurity maturity is difficult to connect to enterprise risk or regulator expectations, IRM can help place threat-prioritized controls in the same operating model as compliance and audit, giving cybersecurity and IT teams a clearer way to connect risk posture to business decisions.
Intelligent risk management turns risk into a true enterprise capability
RSM’s IRM methodology is built from years of helping organizations manage risk in the real world. It’s designed around the way risk teams actually work, giving your organization a practical model for connecting programs, reducing duplication and turning risk information into business action.
Integrated
One source of truth across silos
Risk, compliance, audit, privacy and IT operate from a unified risk register, control inventory, citation library and issue register.
Continuous
Always-on monitoring
Risk posture, control status, regulatory changes and treatment progress are tracked in real time.
Decision-ready
A shift of focus to judgment
Citation parsing, control inference, risk scoring and exposure analysis are enabled by automation and generative AI.
Connect risk priorities across every role
IRM helps leaders use risk information in the context of the decisions they own. Each role gains a clearer way to understand exposure, prioritize action and show progress against the outcomes they are accountable for.
How IRM supports each leader responsible for risk:
Chief risk officer (CRO)
Decide which risks should shape strategy, investment and growth:
IRM gives CROs a clearer enterprise view of exposure and priorities tied to business value.
Chief audit executive (CAE)
Focus assurance where it matters most:
IRM helps CAEs direct audit plans around the highest-risk areas and show the audit committee where coverage is strongest.
Chief financial officer (CFO)
Strengthen confidence in financial controls:
IRM helps CFOs connect SOX, reporting and assurance activities to risk, making control posture easier to trust and sustain.
Chief compliance officer
(CCO)
Turn regulatory change into coordinated action:
IRM helps CCOs understand business impact, assign ownership and document progress across obligations and controls.
Chief information security officer (CISO)
Explain cybersecurity risk in business terms:
IRM helps CISOs connect threats, controls and maturity to enterprise priorities, regulator expectations and business impact.
Board of directors
Oversee risk without managing the details:
IRM gives boards a defensible view of top risks, escalation paths and management progress against priorities.