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Risk Management as a Career: A Guide for BCM Professionals

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Both terms refer to how much risk management is prepared to accept in pursuit of its objectives. Risk appetite is a broader statement of the level of risk that management deems acceptable. Risk tolerance refers to the specific level of risk the company will accept as it pursues a specific objective.

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At Risk of Distraction: The Seductive Appeal of RMIS Software

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An RMIS can help an organization identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate risks, but often they merely seduce and distract companies that are not in a position to make proper use of them. RMIS supports the development and implementation of risk mitigation strategies to reduce the likelihood or impact of identified risks.

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The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk  

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Risk limitation. A strategy in which measures are taken to reduce risk, short of completely eliminating it. Incorporates a combination of the strategies of risk avoidance and risk acceptance. Risk transfer. Most organizations use some combination of all of these strategies to manage their risks.

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

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(Sometimes the potential consequences of a given risk are too small to worry about.) Rather, we do it as a starting point for conducting a cost/benefit analysis of each risk and ultimately applying one of the four main risk mitigation strategies: risk acceptance, risk avoidance, risk limitation, or risk transfer.

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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.

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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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Global Turmoil Making You Ill? Try a Dose of Risk Management  

MHA Consulting

I included MHA’s definitions of the strategies last time in my post on enterprise risk management. In case you missed it, here they are again: Risk acceptance is a conscious decision to remain vulnerable to a potential harm, usually based on a cost-benefit analysis.