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Risk management
Risks are an ubiquitous and characteristic side-effect of taking action by organisations (see also Risk–reward analysis).
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The risk management matrix
The risk management matrix is another alternative to the Suns & Clouds, though, as with the composite risk index of [The composite risk index and the 5×5 risk matrix](../the-composite-risk-index-and-the-55-risk-matrix--97a9bc04/index.md), it looks only at risk, not.
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Use risk management whenever uncertain events or conditions could materially affect objectives. The depth should match the stakes, reversibility and velocity of the decision.
Use the matrix as a call to action: identify how transfer, mitigation or redesign could make a strategy more robust.
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Strengths, limits, and pitfalls.
Risk management
- Write each material risk as cause, uncertain event and consequence, then assign an owner, response, trigger and residual exposure. This makes the register actionable and reveals when several risks depend on the same fragile control.
- Start with objectives, stakeholders, obligations, risk appetite and decision horizon. Define a shared taxonomy without allowing it to constrain discovery.
- Identify threats and opportunities through multiple perspectives: operational, financial, market, strategic, technological, environmental, safety, people, legal, geopolitical and reputational. Include dependencies, concentration, emerging risk and scenarios in which several events occur together.
Watch for
- Do not confuse a completed register with managed risk. Static scores, hidden assumptions and untested controls create false reassurance; monitor the environment and exercise the response before it is needed.
The risk management matrix
- For every severe exposure, separate what can change the event from what can reduce its consequence, then design the response accordingly.
- Assemble the material risks from strategy development. Define scales and evidence, then rate likelihood and value impact consistently. Add a manageability assessment that distinguishes prevention from consequence reduction.
- Plot manageability against impact and size each circle by likelihood.
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- Like the composite risk index and 5×5 risk matrix, this tool can produce a threat only conversation. Review opportunity and upside separately.
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