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Risk Management as a Career: A Guide for BCM Professionals

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For those with a suitable temperament and skill set, a career in risk management can be rewarding due to the field’s broad scope, consequential nature, and rising prominence. In this week’s post, we’ll look at what a risk manager does and the skills it takes to excel in this role. Transferring risk. Accepting risk.

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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. For those for whom this is a new acronym, RMIS stands for risk management information system. Incident Management.

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The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk  

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Reducing risk is at the heart of everything we do as business continuity professionals. This week’s blog post will spell out the key concepts relating to this all-important goal; call it “The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk.” Risk limitation. Incorporates a combination of the strategies of risk avoidance and risk acceptance.

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

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In today’s post, we’ll lay out what these domains are, reveal which ones tend to get overlooked, and explain how knowing about the domains can help business continuity professionals reduce their organizations’ risks and bolster their resilience. When you get right down to it, everything we do in business continuity is about reducing risk.

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How to Offload Your Risk to a Third Party

MHA Consulting

Risk transference is one of the four main strategies organizations can use to mitigate risk. Related on MHA Consulting: Global Turmoil Making You Ill? Try a Dose of Risk Management Wise organizations determine how much risk they will accept then make conscious efforts to bring their risk down below that threshold. .

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

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Successful risk mitigation requires that a central authority supervise controls following a coherent strategy. Related on MHA Consulting: Global Turmoil Making You Ill? 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.

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

MHA Consulting

These days risk is at the forefront of everybody’s mind. It’s certainly on mine, not only in my role as a business continuity consultant but also as a business owner and CEO. I included MHA’s definitions of the strategies last time in my post on enterprise risk management. There’s one factor in all this that’s brand new.