Based on the author's IBM Center for the Business of Government Report, Managing Risk in Government: An Introduction to Enterprise Risk Management, the book is a practical guide to all aspects of risk management in government organizations at the federal, state and local levels. Key to the content is alignment with ISO 31000, an internationally recognized framework issued in 2009 by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) which provides guidelines on establishing and sustaining a formalized risk management approach that can be adopted by any organization - including public, private, not-for-profit and government organizations.