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Forrester Rates Deloitte Number 1




Mark Layton
Global Leader for Enterprise Risk Services
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

A new report on the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) consulting services marketplace from respected independent researcher, Forrester Research, gives Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu firms the highest overall service offering score.

The report, entitled The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Risk Management Consulting Q4 2005, was released by Forrester earlier this week.

The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Risk Management Consulting Q4 2005 evaluates the relative capabilities of the leading global providers of ERM consulting services across a total of 37 criteria grouped into three high-level areas.

?Naturally, we?re very pleased that Forrester recognizes the Deloitte Member Firms in working with clients around the world on their enterprise risk management strategies,? explains Mark Layton, Deloitte Touche Tohmastu?s Global Leader for Enterprise Risk Services.

?Deloitte member firms bring a comprehensive approach to delivering ERM services that meet client?s specific needs. Forrester's report confirms that Deloitte is highly capable of delivering and executing ERM across a wide range of industries and business models.? Layton notes, ?For the most part clients do not yet buy ERM, but rather purchase compliance or governance project, Basel II review, corporate governance, or a general risk assessment.

Deloitte firms focus on educating management on how ERM, and its components can help drive effectiveness and efficiency?and frequently how this can be enabled by technology.?

Layton adds, ?Deloitte Firms help their clients by providing enterprise risk intelligence that supports them in making educated and risk-informed decisions to drive growth and protect assets. The risk management professionals work with senior management to link key performance indicators to risk indicators, and develop strategies which help to enhance value and achieve business goals.?

In Enterprise Risk Management Consultants Scorecard Summary: Deloitte, Forrester Research Inc., October 2005, Christine Ferrusi Ross, co-author and leading services analyst writes, ?Deloitte sees ERM as a fundamental component of doing business in today?s economy.

Proper corporate governance requires linkage of key performance indicators to key risk indicators around business strategies aimed at maximizing value. Deloitte led in Forrester?s evaluation by showing clear ability to set strategy and business integration of ERM from the top of the organization down into the business processes and systems.?

According to Forrester, today clients mostly look at short-term tactical risk perspectives, such as regulatory compliance, or from siloed perspectives where each business unit within a large company develops independent risk initiatives. ?Clients will not gain the full business benefits they hope to achieve until they take an enterprise approach to risk,? adds Ferrusi Ross.

?Because most companies don?t know how to achieve ERM, they will hire consultants to help... Deloitte led the Forrester Wave in the overall service offering score by demonstrating its ability to execute a complete ERM strategy offering that integrates ERM into the culture of the business.?

Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, a Swiss Verein, its member firms and their respective subsidiaries and affiliates. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is an organization of member firms around the world devoted to excellence in providing professional services and advice, focused on client service through a global strategy executed locally in nearly 150 countries.

With access to the deep intellectual capital of 120,000 people worldwide, Deloitte delivers services in four professional areas, audit, tax, consulting and financial advisory services, and serves more than one-half of the world?s largest companies, as well as large national enterprises, public institutions, locally important clients, and successful, fast-growing global growth companies.

Services are not provided by the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Verein and, for regulatory and other reasons, certain member firms do not provide services in all four professional areas.

As a Swiss Verein (association), neither Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu nor any of its member firms has any liability for each other?s acts or omissions. Each of the member firms is a separate and independent legal entity operating under the names ?Deloitte?, ?Deloitte & Touche?, ?Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu? or other related names.

In the US, Deloitte & Touche USA LLP is the US member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and services are provided by the subsidiaries of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP (Deloitte & Touche LLP, Deloitte Consulting LLP, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP, Deloitte Tax LLP and their subsidiaries), and not by Deloitte & Touche USA LLP. The subsidiaries of the US member firm are among the nation's leading professional services firms, providing audit, tax, consulting and financial advisory services through nearly 30,000 people in more than 80 cities.

Known as employers of choice for innovative human resources programs, they are dedicated to helping their clients and their people excel.

For more information visit www.deloitte.com/us






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