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Risk Management as a Career: A Guide for BCM Professionals

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As a reminder, risk management is the process of understanding the hazards facing an organization and taking steps to bring them to within a level determined to be acceptable by the senior leadership. It’s not about eliminating risk completely but managing it in a rational, informed way. It’s a permanent ongoing activity.

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These 8 Risk Domains Are the Meat and Potatoes of Risk Management 

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As a practical activity, enterprise risk management (ERM) centers on eight distinct risk domains, some strategic and some operational. With respect to this process, the total landscape of risk that is assessed and mitigated can be divided into eight risk domains. For more on those strategies, click here and here.)

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The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk  

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Residual Risk There are two main kinds of risk when it comes to organizational activities and business continuity: inherent risk and residual risk. Inherent risk is the danger intrinsic to any business activity or operation. A related but higher level concept is that of risk mitigation strategies.

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How to Offload Your Risk to a Third Party

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. · Risk avoidance: Altering organizational behavior to eliminate a given risk. Risk limitation: Taking measures to reduce risk, short of completely eliminating it. Incorporates a combination of the strategies of risk avoidance and risk acceptance. 2) Is the vendor resilient?

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5 Steps towards an Actionable Risk Appetite

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Risk appetites and tolerances are the perfect way to make data-driven, performance-enhancing decisions while developing a system to understand when and where your business is taking on too much risk, or not taking on enough. Risk Appetite. Risk Tolerance. Risk Appetite.

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Who’s the Boss? Successful Risk Mitigation Requires Centralized Leadership

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Try a Dose of Risk Management As a business continuity professional, I tip my hat to any organization that makes a serious effort to reduce its risks. Unfortunately, many companies do not get their money’s worth when it comes to implementing risk mitigation controls.

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Managing Enterprise Risk: Understanding the 8 Risk Domains

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Before we discuss the eight risk domains, there are three general points about risk management that are worth keeping in mind: 1. In essence, risk management is about being mature, practical, and proactive in actively managing down risk to make the organization more prepared to limit impacts and ensure operational resiliency.