KPMG Dynamic Risk Assessment
KPMG Dynamic Risk Assessment
KPMG Dynamic Risk Assessment
Dynamic Risk Assessment (DRA) is a proprietary fit for the future as the forces and trends that shape our
methodology developed by KPMG to help bring a better future have increasingly not manifested themselves before.
understanding of the risks organizations face in today’s Moreover, risks combine. They spill over into each other—they
complex world of developing technology, emerging don’t manifest neatly in isolation—and we no longer have the
markets, climate change, growing populations and other luxury of dealing with risks discretely.
mega trends that interact to shape our future. DRA takes
an unprecedented approach to gaining insights into There is a need to advance beyond historical risk analyses
clients’ risk environments by pinpointing central risks and comprising two-dimensional depictions of expected
shedding new light on the risk mitigation strategies. probability and severity, and consider a third, and indeed a
fourth dimension: velocity and contagion. This, together with
In today’s highly interconnected and volatile world, dominated the consideration of global trends that are shaping our world,
by new technology and emerging business models, the past is what Dynamic Risk Assessment encompasses.
is no longer a reliable guide to the future. Past data is a poor
DRA applies graph theory, the science of expert elicitation, risk and non-risk frontline and back-office individuals within
actuarial modeling, sophisticated mathematics and financial the business. This is done in a KPMG proprietary (and patent
mathematical algorithms, advanced data & analytics (D&A) pending) methodology to identify, connect and visualize risk
and accounting science to assessments from experienced in four dimensions.
The DRA methodology combines qualitative and quantitative data to help identify:
KPMG Deliver
Landscape Follow Up
DRA Survey KPMG Analysis Dynamic Risk
articulation Workshop
Assessment Report
1 2 3 4 5
KPMG works with Key stakeholders KPMG applies KPMG discuss the The DRA report is
key stakeholders complete an online advanced network findings with the discussed with the
to identify the key survey, for the theory to the key stakeholders. client to form part
risks facing the collection of data on survey responses of strategic planning
organization. the characteristics to identify the and ongoing
of the risks facing organization’s monitoring.
the organization. interconnected risks
and opportunity
The survey requires
network, and it’s
approx. 45 min to
dynamics.
complete.
Joey Gyengo
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