Risk List

Do you know why you do what you do? Is there anything else you should be doing? Risk List lets you manage the risks which may stop you reaching your objectives.

Manage your Risks

Do you know what might stop you from reaching your objectives? Risk List lets your link Risks to Objectives. Does the following sound familiar to you?

• I want to get more sales
• I want to improve customer service
• I want to spend less time doing [xyz]
• I want to Grow Big

Using Risk List as your Risk Management tool lets you assign risks against these objectives. You can’t get more sales if your website keeps going down. That’s a Risk.

Control your Risks

Once you know your risks, you can control them. Add controls and link them to risks. Assign an owner to the control. Make sure that it’s operational and helps you to manage the risk. For example running pingdom or other server monitoring tools is a control which helps you detect whether your website keeps going down. Classify controls

• Detective – is there a problem? What is your downtime report showing
• Preventative – if a condition is not met, then this will stop something going ahead
• Corrective – this is something which is done after something happens. If your site goes down you’d contact the host, complain, perhaps even move host

The above uses the risk of your website going down as an example.

Track Metrics

Do you know what measures your success? What should you and your team be focussing on?

• Grow monthly sales revenue
• Increase email subscribers
• Improve customer response times
• Grow Twitter following
• Create and track your metrics

Manage Processes

Do you know how your processes tie in to which risk you are managing? Who does what.

• See what’s due when
• See who needs to do what
• Set frequency (recurring monthly, weekly, daily)
• Mark complete / incomplete

Risk Dashboard Overview

Risk List adds new Dashboard widgets so you can see at a glance your Risk Information.

• See your risks on a Heat Map
• See your top risks in your Risk Overview
• Track actions
• View upcoming processes
• Plus much more

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