Anyone and any organisation that sets out to accomplish anything is going to have things go wrong. Risk management at its heart is about avoiding making the mistakes which will stop you getting where you want to go. And there are a lot of potential mistakes to make; things can go wrong in every phase of activity. In fact things will go wrong, without any doubt, so the smart organisation does enough risk management to make sure these problems don’t prove fatal. Half of this story is using risk management to try and make sure things work in your organisation the way you want them to. The other half is using risk management to help decision making, choosing between alternatives and going for the option that seems to offer the best upside for the least down.
