(Quality + Engineering: Portland, OR) --  Risk management is now considered a core skill for all professionals. A May 2010 Business Week survey of 1,500 chief executives by IBM concluded that “global complexity is the foremost issue confronting CEOs and their enterprises. The chief executives see a large gap between the level of complexity coming at them and their confidence that their enterprises are equipped to deal with it.”

Volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity are challenging all organizations. It often seems as though a “black swan” event—a seemingly low-likelihood, but high-impact catastrophe such as the Gulf oil spill—is occurring somewhere. The solution to this volatility, is enterprise risk management (ERM).

The Seattle section of ASQ and Quality + Engineering are offering the Certified Enterprise Risk Manager (CERM) certificate program in Seattle. Four integrated risk management workshops will be held:

• Enterprise Risk Management, Sept. 27–28

• Process Risk Management (Value-Added Auditing), Oct. 28–29

• Project Risk Management, Nov. 11–12

• Supply Risk Management, Dec. 9–10

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