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What Is Risk Mitigation?

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What Is Risk Mitigation?

by Bobbi Marin, California Business Journal
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From cyberattacks to vandalism, businesses face many incidents that pose a threat to their operations and continuity. As such, enterprises are taking steps to avert or limit the effects of such threats, a strategy known as risk mitigation. Like other elements of risk management, risk mitigation targets to minimize the adverse effects of different threats on business continuity, with its implementation varying from one organization to another.

What Kinds of Risks Should You Worry About

Whether startups or established conglomerates, businesses face different kinds of risks- some severe to the extent of causing bankruptcy, while others are minor with no monetary losses. As an enterprise, the risks you should worry about include strategic, compliance, financial, operational, and reputational risks.

Every organization needs to understand the potential risks that could interfere with its operations, security, profits, and other processes to remain relevant and competitive in the market. Failure to recognize any threat spells disaster for the organization. Therefore, risk management, which involves identifying, analyzing, and mitigating various risks, remains crucial in business continuity. Risk mitigation is an element of risk management your business needs to employ.

What is the Importance of Risk Mitigation?

Risk mitigation refers to the strategies established by an organization to reduce its exposure to potential risks and their likelihood of occurrence. A robust risk mitigation plan is essential for a business’s operation, profitability and reputation. First, it guides how an organization can endure and control risks to achieve business goals. With a clear risk mitigation strategy, the enterprise can make the right decisions, leading to competitive advantage and a good reputation.

Risk mitigation increases the organization’s stability in different market situations while reducing the likelihood of regulatory liabilities. Thus, to protect the company and its stakeholder from potential harm, you must implement risk mitigation strategies.

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Risk Mitigation Plan

While risks and threats vary from business to business, some steps for designing a thorough risk mitigation plan are relatively constant. A robust risk mitigation strategy requires recognizing systematic risks, prioritizing intervention, and monitoring mitigation plans.

Generally, developing a risk mitigation plan involves:
  1. Identifying potential risks in all organization events – In this digital age, cyberattack is a real threat to any business, making savvy businesses focus on taking steps to prevent cybercrimes. That said, risks go beyond data-related threats. Organizational aspects like geographical location, working conditions, and employee status pose different risks, necessitating comprehensive evaluation.
  2. Assessing risks – perform a risk assessment by quantifying the level of threats in the different organizational events. Also, think of measures and controls you can implement to avert or minimize the impact of such risks.
  3. Prioritizing the risks – risk prioritization entails ranking the various risks in terms of severity. The business needs to establish a particular acceptable risk level by allowing an amount of risk in one aspect to protect another more important area. Prioritization helps the company to channel resources without compromising critical functions.
  4. Tracking the risks – risks are bound to evolve, and those initially deemed minor might become significant issues in the future. Thus, a business must have solid metrics for monitoring different risks as they develop and the intervention measures instituted to combat the threats.
  5. Implementing and evaluating progress – after identifying the risk, a plan to reduce the risk should be implemented. Regular evaluation of the strategy’s effectiveness is critical to ensure modifications are made following the risk evolution.
Types of Risk Mitigation Strategies

Risk mitigation strategies are diverse, and you can use them in combination, depending on the company’s risk landscape. They include:

Risk avoidance

When the consequences of a particular event are too high to justify the cost of mitigating the associated risks, avoidance is the best strategy. The organization chooses to forgo the event to prevent the risks. An example of risk avoidance is withdrawing operations from potential war zones to avoid property damage or employee harm.

Risk acceptance

After risk quantification in terms of severity, the business chooses to accept some level of risk in one area while using the available resources to avert more severe troubles.

Risk transfer

Used when more than one party is involved, risk transfer involves distributing risks to different parties according to their ability to defend against the threat. For instance, a car manufacturer can transfer responsibility for various risks to all the component suppliers.

Risk monitoring is where the organization tracks all its projects and the associated risks to determine the impact of the risk on the business.

Establishing a robust risk mitigation culture requires you to constantly communicate risks to the stakeholders, develop a clear risk management policy, and monitor all potential risks.

Risk Mitigation Tools

Besides internal controls, a company can mitigate risks through the help of agile project management methods that review and reinforce different business strategies. Agile teams work with risk managers and business leaders to minimize company risks at all levels.

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