Why risk management has become everyone’s job in 2022?

Even a simple Google search for “risk management” will reveal that this is a hot issue right now.

In recent years, the world – and the nature of risk – has altered dramatically, with threats and possibilities arising from security, climate, health, finance, and other areas. The volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous – VUCA – environment is more than an abbreviation.

The stakes in risk management are bigger than ever before, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems are increasingly on the boardroom agenda.

As a result, everyone’s awareness of risk must improve significantly.

While there are certain professional categories and businesses that specialize in risk management, it is a discipline that is truly everyone’s responsibility. To handle that responsibility, greater preparation and broader talents are required.

Creating a risk management culture

Organizational leaders must establish the correct environment to encourage a culture of proactive risk management. Essentially, a top-down directive that something is critical.

Competence is required throughout the business, including both establishing competence in risk experts and boosting everyone’s awareness and understanding so that it is no longer “someone else’s job.”

This is difficult to achieve in companies. Researchers observed examples of good and less good behavior in companies when producing the current version of the Management of Risk best practice – M o R® 4 – the latter especially where risk is considered a culturally bad thing and is only paid lip service.

M_o_R 4 – a timely guidance update

Organizations functioning in a VUCA world want a risk management framework that is as up-to-date as possible while still being practical/usable.

As a result, we believed M o R 4 might be even more useful than its predecessor; something practitioners could use right away. This was also a chance to include new ideas and close gaps, increasing the framework’s value as a practical and comprehensive framework for successful risk management.

However, while M o R 4 is obviously associated with the world of portfolios, programs, and projects, it is also applicable on an enterprise-wide scale, including both strategic and operational operations.

Risk has always been a part of programs and projects. Yet, with its increased potency today, change professionals must up their risk management game.

And, in addition to the advice provided by PRINCE2 and Managing Successful Programmes (MSP), M o R 4 goes further, allowing the practitioner to delve deeper and build more skills.

What’s new in the new M_o_R 4?

1. The eight principles of M o R 4 are now more clearly described, providing something more practical than theoretical.
2. What was once a four-process lifecycle is now an eight-process lifetime. They have broken down the processes in greater depth, which will provide PRINCE2, MSP, and other change experts and managers with additional risk understanding.
3. Techniques for recognizing risk are intimately connected to specific periods of the process cycle. For the first time, we have provided examples of fictitious scenarios in the presentation of approaches.
4. A new “people” chapter recognizes that people’s decisions may make or break risk management. For example, organizational cultures typically promote so-called heroic behavior, such as continually “fighting” problems. They wouldn’t have to start “fires” in the first place if they behaved differently.
5. The guideline recognizes multiple points of view and how different elements of an organization will utilize M o R 4 in different ways, including strategic, operational, and product management functions.

Why manage risk with M_o_R 4?

The current advice is titled “Creating and Protecting Value.”

That is, risk management is more than just a cost: it provides advantages to the company and, if done well, will produce and protect business value by better managing threats and opportunities.

Individual practitioners will benefit from learning and certifying in M o R 4 because it will help them become more successful managers, leaders, and supervisors who are aware of what could happen in the face of persistent uncertainty.

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