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Risk Management Process – Part 3c: Risk Control

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The third crucial step in risk assessment is risk control, which involves crafting effective strategies to mitigate the identified risks. There are four fundamental types of risk control: risk acceptance, risk mitigation, risk avoidance, and risk transfer.

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How to Offload Your Risk to a Third Party

MHA Consulting

There are four main strategies for mitigating risk : · Risk acceptance: Making a conscious decision to remain vulnerable to a potential harm, usually based on a cost-benefit analysis. Risk avoidance: Altering organizational behavior to eliminate a given risk. 2) Is the vendor resilient?

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

MHA Consulting

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. I wish it were true.

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

MHA Consulting

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  

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