Risk Mitigation – What’s Your Score?

This article examines conventional methods for risk identification and risk scoring using ‘look-up’ tables, and concludes that such methods are inherently flawed and offer false confidence in project management. The author suggests a series of searching questions to test the efficacy of traditional...

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Main Author: Crosby, Philip
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Juniper Publishers 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/77233
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description This article examines conventional methods for risk identification and risk scoring using ‘look-up’ tables, and concludes that such methods are inherently flawed and offer false confidence in project management. The author suggests a series of searching questions to test the efficacy of traditional risk assessment in order to better prepare the project for review. Important further considerations are posed in relation to non-specific, irrational risk exposure (i.e. Black Swans), and the author presents two approaches for improved preparedness against undefined risk.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-772332021-01-08T07:54:29Z Risk Mitigation – What’s Your Score? Crosby, Philip risk score likelihood Consequences mitigation Project Management Assessment Task Force Preparedness Black Swan This article examines conventional methods for risk identification and risk scoring using ‘look-up’ tables, and concludes that such methods are inherently flawed and offer false confidence in project management. The author suggests a series of searching questions to test the efficacy of traditional risk assessment in order to better prepare the project for review. Important further considerations are posed in relation to non-specific, irrational risk exposure (i.e. Black Swans), and the author presents two approaches for improved preparedness against undefined risk. 2018 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/77233 10.19080/ETOAJ.2018.01.555551 English http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Juniper Publishers fulltext
spellingShingle risk
score
likelihood
Consequences
mitigation
Project Management
Assessment
Task Force
Preparedness
Black Swan
Crosby, Philip
Risk Mitigation – What’s Your Score?
title Risk Mitigation – What’s Your Score?
title_full Risk Mitigation – What’s Your Score?
title_fullStr Risk Mitigation – What’s Your Score?
title_full_unstemmed Risk Mitigation – What’s Your Score?
title_short Risk Mitigation – What’s Your Score?
title_sort risk mitigation – what’s your score?
topic risk
score
likelihood
Consequences
mitigation
Project Management
Assessment
Task Force
Preparedness
Black Swan
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/77233