Leadership Succession Continues to Challenge Consumer Products and Services Companies

For seven years, Protiviti and North Carolina State University’s ERM Initiative have been tracking and measuring the macroeconomic, operational and strategic risks that are emerging across industry groups. The latest Executive Perspectives on Top Risks survey report reveals a set of risk issues that have not changed significantly for the consumer products and services industry in the past three years.

In this article, Protiviti Managing Director Rick Childs takes a closer look at these risk issues, along with the frightening reality of the “retail apocalypse.”