Books in the Cerm Academy Enterprise Risk Management series

Who is the author: Greg Hutchins PE CERM?Greg Hutchins is the risk evangelist who coined the expression Future of Quality: Risk® and is the developer of Certified Enterprise Risk Manager® (CERM) certificate (www.CERMAcademy.com). What is ISO 31000: Enterprise Risk Management?International Organization for Standardization (ISO) developed ISO 31000 as its risk management guideline for its management system standards. More than 60 countries have adopted ISO 31000 as their national risk management standard. ISO 31000: Enterprise Risk Management is the first book to address: ISO Enterprise Risk Management; risk based, problem solving; risk based, decision making; Risk Based Thinking; and governance, risk, and compliance requirements. Everyone who is certified to ISO 9001:2015 needs to read this book to understand and implement Risk Based Thinking in ISO 9001:2015 and newer ISO standards.What This Book Can Do for You? Describes how you can architect, design, deploy and assure risk controls that are appropriate to your organization's context and risk appetite? Supports executive management with operational governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC). Identifies emerging and current risks so plans can be developed to control, manage, and mitigate risks. Identifies emerging and current opportunities so appropriate investments can be pursued. Increases the probability of success in achieving the organization's strategic plan and mission critical objectives Explains key risk concepts such as RBT, risk management assessment, risk management, VUCA, risk context, Risk Maturity, etc. Explains and gives examples of ISO 31000 risk management principles and risk management framework. Explains in detail ISO 31000, ISO 31010, and other key risk standards. Provides an example of an ISO 31000 risk management process that you can design and deploy in your organization based on context and maturity. Determines clear accountability, ownership, and responsibility of risk throughout the organization. Supports leaning, simplification, and innovation strategies to ensure optimized use of resources.

Supply Chain Risk Management: Competing In the Age of Disruption is the first book addressing global supply chain VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity).This 'what is' and 'how to' book:Prepares supply chain, quality, engineering, and operational excellence professionals for their emerging risk roles, responsibilities, and authorities.Illustrates how supply chain risk-controls are architected, designed, deployed, and assured.Explains why Risk Based Problem Solving (RBPS) and Risk Based Decision Making (RBDM) are the future of SCRM.  Examples are offered throughout the book.Illustrates how supply chain management is migrating to Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM).Demonstrates how SCRM objectives align with the organization’s strategic objectives.Describes how to move beyond a price relationship to a value-added relationship.Integrates the disparate elements of SCRM into a competitive business system.Describes how to select and develop suppliers based on risk criteria.Demonstrates how to use ISO 31000 risk management framework of SCRM.

Why Purchase this Book? More than 1000 questions for supply chain, quality, engineering, and operational excellence professionals.Essential questions tailor your ISO 9001-2015 and internal auditing checklist.Tailor a checklist for continuous improvement.Bonus Materials/Resources:Access over 1,500 risk articles through CERM Academy (http://insights.cermacademy.com/).Get free course materials such as using FMEA’s in ISO 9001:2015.Get slide decks with specific risk information on YouTube.Get discount for Certified Enterprise Risk Manager® certificate.

Value Added Auditing - 4th Edition (550 pages) is a process and risk based manual for performance audits, risk management, ISO management system and risk based audits. The manual can be used to conduct performance, operational, IT, cyber, and supply management assessments. The objective of the manual is to enhance: 1. Risk-based, problem solving and 2. Risk-based, decision making. All ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001 companies should read this book to understand and implement Risk Based Thinking (RBT) and Risk Based Auditing (RBA). Value Added Auditing is the first book that addresses the convergence of operational, quality, customer-supplier, internal, compliance and other types of audits. The future of audits will be to add overall stakeholder value.Value Added Auditing brings to you the latest value added auditing technologies. As such, this manual describes a process for conducting practical, cost effective, risk based audits in many different functional areas.Value Added Auditing explains and shows you how value added auditing is conducted; in other words 'how to do it.' There is amazingly little information on the subject. Much of what exists is technical and often lists definitions and procedures from standards that are difficult to interpret and apply. So to remedy this problem, this guide to the actual practice of how value added auditing is used.Value Added Auditing has a process emphasis. We've strived to take a process orientation, cutting across appraisal and auditing functions. Why? More businesses are run along core processes. Core process thinking permeates 'value added auditing'.