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

MHA Consulting

Many companies spend millions of dollars implementing risk mitigation controls but are kept from getting their money’s worth by a disconnected, piecemeal approach. Successful risk mitigation requires that a central authority supervise controls following a coherent strategy. I wish it were true. This is all to the good.

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Risk Management as a Career: A Guide for BCM Professionals

MHA Consulting

They include process and procedural robustness and integrity; people, skills, and training; insurance and self-insurance; the supply chain, outsourcing, and inherent risk; infrastructure, systems, and telecommunications; and physical and information security. Knowledge of how to mitigate risks. Accepting 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. 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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Risk Management Process – Part 3c: Risk Control

Zerto

In our last post, we examined the risk analysis step of risk assessment. The third crucial step in risk assessment is risk control, which involves crafting effective strategies to mitigate the identified risks. Loss Prevention— This approach accepts the potential risk but aims to prevent its impact.

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

MHA Consulting

With respect to this process, the total landscape of risk that is assessed and mitigated can be divided into eight risk domains. Second, we do not assess the risks to an organization with the expectation that every risk identified can or should be eliminated. For more on those strategies, click here and here.)

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Managing Enterprise Risk: Understanding the 8 Risk Domains

MHA Consulting

Following the risk assessment. the organization should address each identified risk with one of the four risk mitigation strategies: risk acceptance, risk avoidance, risk limitation, or risk transfer. Identified risks should not just be ignored with the hope the impact will not occur.

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Business Continuity and Risk Management

BCP Builder

However, some Business Continuity Plans may contain lower level risks that are important to the department but not significant to the organization as a whole Risk Management is focused on the mitigation of issues and Business Continuity is more concerned about a worst case scenario action plan.