Group Case Study 1 - Hydro One (15% Overall)

Case Study:

You are asked to read the main and supplementary case studies associated with Hydro One Enterprise Risk Management

Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro one (A)

Main Case: Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One (A)

Anette Mikes Pub Date:Jul 3, 2008 (Revised: Jan 18, 2012) Product #:109001-PDF-ENG

Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One (B) - How Risky Are Smart Meters

Supporting Case: Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One (B): How Risky are Smart Meters?

Anette Mikes, Dominique Hamel Pub Date:Dec 13, 2011(Revised: Feb 17, 2012) Product #:112073-PDF-ENG

Guidelines for Case Study Analysis (3 Components)

Executive Summary/Case Synopsis - High level summary of case and what needs to be analyzed

Content - i.e. answer questions for each case

For the main case "Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One":

1. What is Hydro One's Strategy and what risks does the company face?

2. Consider the three stages of Hydro One's enterprise risk management (ERM) process: Workshops; Risk Based Asset Planning; the Regular Update of the Corporate Risk Profile. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the ERM process?

3. Should private-sector companies embrace ERM in a way similar to Hydro One's approach? What are the contingencies of this process?

4. What recommendations would you make to CEO Laura Formula about this process

For the supporting case "How Risky Are Smart Meters":

1. Applying Hydro One's impact objective matrix, on a scale of 1 to 5, how would you assess the overall risk of the Smart Metering project?

2. How would you evaluate the contribution of the risk workshops and Hydro One's process of risk talk?

3. How had Hydro One's risk manager achieved lasting organizational status and influence?

References - Use facts from the case. You can consider theory as well as concepts discussed in class and how it would be applied in the case study.