Anticipation and Risk Management. One of the central principles of the Anticipatory Organization Model is to move beyond the idea of mere competition. By that, I mean going past the idea of measuring your organization’s success and performance against others. Instead, set your own standards through transformational planning and ongoing innovation.
For example, a project team might implement the accept strategy to identify risks to the project budget and make plans to lower the risk of going over budget, so that all team members are aware of the risk and possible consequences.
One of the central principles of the Anticipatory Organization Model is to move beyond the idea of mere competition. By that, I mean going past the idea of measuring your organization’s success and performance against others. Instead, set your own standards through transformational planning and ongoing innovation.
Five risk mitigation strategies with examples. 1 1. Assume and accept risk. The acceptance strategy can involve collaboration between team members to identify the possible risks of a project and ... 2 2. Avoidance of risk. 3 3. Controlling risk. 4 4. Transference of risk. 5 5. Watch and monitor risk.
Team members may also implement a control strategy when mitigating risks to a project. This strategy works by taking into account risks identified and accepted and then taking actions to reduce or eliminate the impacts of these risks. The following examples highlight how control methods can be implemented for risk mitigation.
The accept strategy can be used to identify risks impacting cost. For example, a project team might implement the accept strategy to identify risks to the project budget and make plans to lower the risk of going over budget, so that all team members are aware of the risk and possible consequences.
Monitoring projects for risks and consequences involves watching for and identifying any changes that can affect the impact of the risk. Production teams might use this strategy as part of a standard project review plan. Cost, scheduling and performance or productivity are all aspects of a project that can be monitored for risks that may come up during completion of a project. The following example illustrates ways to monitor and evaluate risk and consequences that can impact a project’s completion.
Risk mitigation refers to the process of planning and developing methods and options to reduce threats—or risks—to project objectives. A project team might implement risk mitigation strategies to identify, monitor and evaluate risks and consequences inherent to completing a specific project, such as new product creation. ...
Cost, scheduling and performance or productivity are all aspects of a project that can be monitored for risks that may come up during completion of a project. The following example illustrates ways to monitor and evaluate risk and consequences that can impact a project’s completion.
The avoidance strategy present s the accepted and assumed risks and consequences of a project and presents opportunities for avoiding those accepted risks. Some methods of implementing the avoidance strategy are to plan for risk and then to take steps to avoid it. For example, to mitigate risk on new product production, a project team may decide to implement product testing to avoid the risk of product failure before final production is approved. The following examples are other ways to implement the avoidance strategy.
Implications to scheduling can be controlled by diversifying tasks and the time it takes to complete them among the project team. Control methods could include tracking the time it takes to complete each task and assigning specific tasks to team members according to the time involved with each task. The project team might also take into account time management strategies to help control any risk to project scheduling.
From a larger business perspective, having a risk management system in place helps improve project execution because the team can anticipate, prevent, and mitigate risks, preventing delays or additional project expenses. Unfortunately, while the team solves the problem, the schedule marches on and project expenses accumulate.
The column headings consist of risk attributes such as likelihood, consequence, and a metric to track each risk. The likelihood and consequence are rated on a scale of one-to-ten, with a one meaning that the risk is nearly impossible with zero impact on the project. The remaining headings are the risk threshold, ...
The goal is to walk through each of the critical metrics, add new metrics as needed, and remove the old ones if the risk has been eliminated. When a trigger point occurs, it is time to review the action plan and launch it. Based on new knowledge, you may update and modify it.
While it is important to include the right people and follow a process when filling in the matrix, the assignment of values to the likelihood and the consequences can get out of hand. It is important that you try to identify the high- and medium-impact risks that also have a reasonably high likelihood of occurring.
You can’t take the risk out of invention and no project is completely risk-free. But you can reduce the risk, even in the most innovative programs. How?
The Risk Reduction Matrix is only as good as its initial inputs. Teams often add one or two principal engineers for this exercise to help them derive a deeper, more comprehensive, and more thoughtful list of risks.
First, by avoiding risks, many organizations effectively limit the sorts of significant opportunities that naturally mandate a degree of risk taking.
As our example illustrates, leveraging hard and Soft Trends to your advantage mitigates the risk that many organizations consider a deal killer when it comes to innovation. Using both kinds of trends allows you to disrupt with low risk—or at least much lower risk—uncovering opportunities that allow your organization to leap far ahead.
No matter its core philosophy , every organization recognizes that an element of risk is necessary for success. That’s particularly true when it comes to innovation; risk is an imperative in a constantly transforming environment.
Although organizations of all sorts acknowledge that risk comes with the territory, that’s not to say they’re all that comfortable with it. To that end, many organizations look to minimize risk by avoiding it as much as possible. That’s misguided in several ways.
By that, I mean going past the idea of measuring your organization’s success and performance against others. Instead, set your own standards through transformational planning and ongoing innovation. In so doing, you redefine the concept of risk management.
First, by avoiding risks, many organizations effectively limit the sorts of significant opportunities that naturally mandate a degree of risk taking.
Although organizations of all sorts acknowledge that risk comes with the territory, that’s not to say they’re all that comfortable with it. To that end, many organizations look to minimize risk by avoiding it as much as possible. That’s misguided in several ways.
No matter its core philosophy , every organization recognizes that an element of risk is necessary for success. That’s particularly true when it comes to innovation; risk is an imperative in a constantly transforming environment.
It’s a basic truth that can’t be disputed: Strategy based on uncertainty has high risk. On the other hand, strategy based on certainty has low risk. That starts with identifying both Hard Trends—those things we know for certain will occur in the future—and Soft Trends, which are future maybes and open to influence.