Assess and mitigate risks
Tools that help you assess and mitigate risks.
14 tools
- Risk Management — Names what could go wrong and rates it by likelihood and impact
- Risk Management Framework — Runs identify, analyse, evaluate and treat as a repeating cycle
- Contingency Planning — Decides the response to a specific bad outcome before it happens
- Crisis Management — Prepares response and recovery for events that threaten the business
- Scenario Planning — Pressure-tests strategy against a handful of plausible bad futures
- PEST and PESTEL Analysis — Scans external forces for risks before committing to a strategy
- Calculated risks — Weighs odds and downside deliberately before you commit
- Early Warning Scans — Watches weak signals so risks stop arriving as surprises
- Disaster Recovery Plan — Decides in advance how systems and data recover after disruption
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework — Organises cyber risk into identify, protect, detect, respond, recover
- Competitive Blind Spots — Maps risks nobody in the business currently sees coming
- Resilience Strategy Framework — Loops anticipate, absorb, adapt and recover into one discipline
- Supplier Evaluation — Scores suppliers on reliability to mitigate supply risk directly
- Decision Trees — Calculates which risk response path is worth most