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Created by Guest
Created on Jun 6, 2018

Risk Register

I love the Decision Register. Similar functionality for a Risk Register, a key governance function, would also be an excellent addition.

I manually do this currently with a table like below:

Risk

 

Impact
(Very Low, Low, Medium, High, Very High)

Probability
(Very Low, Low, Medium, High, Very High)

Strategy/action

Capital gains tax introduced and market slows High Low

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  • Guest
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    Aug 18, 2022

    Our Board has requested it as well -- so adding my vote. Thx

  • Guest
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    Mar 19, 2021

    This sounds like a great idea to improve governance for Directors.

  • Guest
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    Mar 6, 2021

    Hi BoardPro. I've again got clients asking for this and see it has 31 votes now, so is near the top of the user wishlist. Where is it at please?

  • Guest
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    Feb 27, 2020

    Hi BoardPro. I've just returned after some time away, and am wondering where this Risk Register idea from Jun 2018 is at?

     

    13 upvotes suggests strong  user demand.

     

    The best risk register approach I've come across in recent years is as follows:

    > Column 1 = "Risk"
    > Column 2 = "Impact" (or "Severity")

    > Column 3 = "Likelihood" (or "Probability")
    > Column 4 = "Risk score" (by multiplying the previous two fields. 25 is the max)
    > Column 5 = "Mitigation" (or "Strategy" or "Actions" or "Risk Response Action" as one user has suggested below)

    > Then you just rank them all from highest to lowest risk score, and review each meeting.

    > Some businesses also like to categorise risks if they have a lot, e.g. manufacturing risk, economic risk...

  • Guest
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    Jun 8, 2018

    I like the trigger idea, Gavin. Would certainly help an organisation move at lightning speed when crisis strikes!

  • Guest
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    Jun 7, 2018

    I would probably adapt the final column above, the 'Strategy/Action' column to be an 'Risk Response Action' button where the response/mitigation would in an action on an owner - the difference this and a normal action being the addition of a non-mandatory 'Trigger' - so the Action may behave per a normal action if the Trigger is not specified, or the Action becomes 'live' only if the trigger event occurs.

  • Guest
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    Jun 7, 2018

    Risk reporting is often a complex and diverse area - different organisations can have highly variable risk reporting requirements but I agree that a generic reporting mechanism, similar in execution to the way in which boardPro has address the need for managing Action items and Minutes reviewing, with a special Agenda item type, would be very useful and would definitely add improved governance.