The benefits of being a risk pioneer
A few companies are achieving superior outcomes through a bolder approach to risk. Here’s how to follow their lead.
PwC’s Global Risk Survey 2023 reveals a top performing 5% of organisations spread across all industry sectors—identified in the research as Risk Pioneers—who are forging ahead in the pursuit of opportunity and value creation.
Outcomes achieved by Risk Pioneers:
- 1.8x more likely to say they are very confident of balancing growth with managing risk
- 1.8x more likely to see GenAI as fully an opportunity than risk
- 1.6x more likely to proactively take risk to create opportunities versus prioritising safe or low risk strategies
- 1.4x more likely to prioritise building resilience to unexpected disruptive events versus prioritising stability and continuity when trigger events occur
- More likely to view their own risk appetite (30%), their CEO’s (31%) and their board’s (26%) as eager/hungry, indicating closer leadership alignment on taking risk
Join the 3,910 business and risk leaders surveyed, from the boardroom and C-suite, across tech, operations and finance, as well as risk and audit—and explore your approach to value creation and value protection in risk.
Are you a Risk Pioneer? Take our real-time benchmarking survey.
This ten-minute survey will compare your responses with our global study data to help you explore your approach to risk and reveal your risk archetype.
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