Managing External Risk Case Study

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Managing external Risk:
These types of risks also need a different approach from preventable risk and stragtic risk as companies do not know when and where these events will occur and what impact these sencerios will have on their companies. As a result companies must try to identify these risks and have conteingcy plans in place to minimize the losses associated with external risks. The problem for risk managers is that the probability of these events occurring is quite low so as a result companies need to have open and honest discussions about these types of risks and how they will affect the company should they occur. Risk management teams must work along side strategy teams to thrash out the impact of these types of risks.
Example
An example of external risk would be the Earthquake and Tsunami that hit Japan 2011. The economy was servely impacted and financial markets fell. The quake and tsunami damaged and closed down key ports. This disrupted the global supply chain of a number of products from Apple to Boeing. Impacting there production lines.
(http://useconomy.about.com/od/criticalssues/a/Japan-Earthquake.htm)
It is quite difficult for companies to plan for these types of risk but senior managers and …show more content…

Instead of looking at ways to minimise risk, companies are actually incubating risk through the normalisation of deviance. They begin to accept small failures and treat early warning signals as false alarms. Talking about risk and failures is normally quite hard for senior managers who normally demonstrate a positive can do attitude to their employees. They need to make sure employees feel comfortable talking and challenging idea’s relating to a companies risk management. Senior executives need to promote a culture of thinking about what could go wrong and how do we make sure it has a minimised impact on

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