Strategic risk management: from knowing your risks to managing them
"Our entire IT infrastructure ran on the knowledge of one person. Everyone knew it. Nobody did anything about it."
Until he was out for three months.
We see this kind of situation more often than you'd think. Not because business leaders don't know the risks — quite the opposite. But day-to-day operations, growth, people... they demand all the attention. Risks that haven't materialized yet get pushed to the back.
Strategic risk management aims to change that. Not by adding an extra layer of procedures, but by giving risk a fixed place in how your organization thinks and decides.
In our new article, we explain:
→ What strategic risk management concretely means
→ Which types of risk we encounter most often in SMEs
→ When it's particularly relevant (growth, acquisition, exit...)
→ What it delivers for CEOs and CFOs