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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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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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Risk Management as a Career: A Guide for BCM Professionals

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It’s not about eliminating risk completely but managing it in a rational, informed way. Because the organization and environment inevitably change over time, managing risk is a task that’s never done. It’s a permanent ongoing activity. The operational areas that risk management is concerned are broad and varied.

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

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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. It’s engaging in active, mindful risk mitigation.