Risk Management
Strategy tools for risk management.
24 tools
- Calculated risks — Weigh the odds and the downside deliberately before you commit, instead of guessing and calling it confidence.
- Competitive Blind Spots — Map what you see that rivals don't, what they see that you don't, and what nobody sees yet.
- Competitive Scenario Planning — Build a few plausible futures around your biggest uncertainties, then war-game how rivals move in each.
- Compliance Management Systems — Run compliance as a continuous cycle of obligations, controls, monitoring and correction, not a once-a-year audit.
- Contingency Planning — Decide now what you'll do if a specific bad thing happens, before you're the one it's happening to.
- Corporate Governance — The structures and checks that decide who holds power in a company, and what stops them abusing it.
- Crisis Management — Prepare, respond and recover from events that threaten the business, decided before it happens, not during.
- Decision Trees — Map a decision as branches of choices and probabilities, so you can calculate which path is worth most.
- Digital Trust Framework — Set the principles and controls, security, privacy, authentication, transparency and accountability, that earn digital reliance.
- Disaster Recovery Plan — Decide in advance how systems and data come back after a disruption, calmly, before the crisis hits.
- Early Warning Scans — Systematically watch weak signals in the outside world so shocks stop arriving as surprises.
- Futures Wheel — Map first, second and third-order consequences of a decision outward from a central topic.
- Game Theory — Model a decision where your payoff depends on what others choose, to find the stable outcome.
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework — Organise cyber-risk work into six functions - Govern at the centre, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover around it - to find your actual weak
- Policy Development — Turn a recurring problem into a rule people follow, built through research and real consultation.
- Privacy Compliance and Strategy Model — Turn scattered data-protection law into one set of policies, training and checks you can run and audit.
- Privacy-by-Design Framework — Bake privacy into architecture from the first sketch, using Cavoukian's seven design principles.
- Resilience Strategy Framework — A loop for organisational resilience: anticipate, absorb, adapt, recover, and feed what you learn back in.
- Risk Management — Name what could go wrong, rate it by likelihood and impact, and decide the response before it happens.
- Risk Management Framework — A repeating cycle - context, identify, analyse, evaluate, treat, review - that gives risk management a shared process.
- Scenario Planning — Build a handful of plausible futures around your biggest uncertainties, then pressure-test your strategy against each.
- Startup Legal Toolkit — A working set of legal documents and checkpoints for incorporation, IP, contracts and compliance you build before you need them.
- Strategic Scenario Planning — Cross two critical uncertainties to frame four futures, then rehearse decisions in each before one becomes real.
- War Gaming — Role-play your strategy against a simulated competitor and regulator response before the market does it for real.