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Managing complex organizational risks

The risk landscape is proving to be dynamic and challenging for boards and corporate risk managers alike who are faced with a diverse range of complex and often interconnected risks.

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The 2020s continue to challenge boards and corporate risk leaders with a dynamic and increasingly interconnected risk landscape. From climate transition and extreme weather to geopolitical instability and digital disruption, today’s risks are not only multiplying — they are converging in ways that demand more agile, enterprise-wide responses. By identifying emerging risks early and understanding how they interconnect, organizations can build more resilient strategies that anticipate disruption and adapt with confidence.

Climate-related risks represent a generational challenge. Organizations must protect critical infrastructure from extreme weather while aligning business models with evolving emissions targets. Similarly, the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence is amplifying cyber risk, requiring more proactive and resilient technology strategies to safeguard operations, data and reputation.

Scrutiny of ESG strategies is intensifying, with implications that span governance, operations and stakeholder trust. At the same time, inflation, supply chain fragility and shifting global power dynamics are forcing organizations to rethink where and how they operate.

Traditional insurance alone may no longer suffice. We assess your risk profile, appetite, and emerging exposures to help quantify and optimize your portfolio — ensuring that risk transfer strategies are aligned with your broader business objectives. This includes exploring alternative risk financing options such as captives, parametrics and insurance-linked securities, as well as risk portfolio optimization to determine which risks to retain, mitigate, or transfer.

In this environment, resilience requires more than risk registers. It demands foresight, agility and a willingness to challenge legacy assumptions — backed by a clear understanding of how emerging risks interconnect across your organization.

What sets apart the WTW approach to complex organizational risks?

Today’s challenges require not only working hard, but also working smart to decide between or combine risk acceptance, avoidance, mitigation and transfer strategies that work for your particular organization and its goals.

Our support for you in reaching those decisions is underpinned by our industry specialists’ knowledge and experience and by data and analytics tools that help provide the clearest possible understanding of the likelihood of you being affected by certain risks, and their potential reach, correlations and scale.

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