Strategic Risk Framework™
Identify, assess and manage the risks to the strategy and business model — the risks most likely to create or destroy value.
Strategic risks are the threats and opportunities that most affect whether the strategy succeeds. This framework links every strategic objective to its risks and stress-tests the strategy against plausible futures.
Risk management focuses on operational detail while the biggest value-destroying risks — disruption, obsolescence, macro shocks — sit outside the register and the board's line of sight.
Identify, assess and manage the risks to the strategy and business model — the risks most likely to create or destroy value.
- Boards
- CEOs & executives
- Strategy leaders
- CROs
- Strategy-to-risk mapping
- Business-model risk
- Scenario & stress testing
- Early-warning indicators
- Strategic optionality
- Board strategy-risk dialogue
- Board and executive own strategic risk; the CRO facilitates; it is embedded in the strategy and planning cycle rather than run as a separate exercise.
Fragile
Maturity level 1 of the shared Outliers risk spine — Fragile.
Functional
Maturity level 2 of the shared Outliers risk spine — Functional.
Disciplined
Maturity level 3 of the shared Outliers risk spine — Disciplined.
Strategic
Maturity level 4 of the shared Outliers risk spine — Strategic.
Resilient
Maturity level 5 of the shared Outliers risk spine — Resilient.
- Map objectives to strategic risks
- Run scenarios and stress tests
- Define early-warning indicators
- Build response options and optionality
- Integrate into planning and board agenda
- Strategic risk map
- Scenario pack
- Early-warning dashboard
- Board strategy-risk report
- Strategic risk policy
- Scenario-planning standard
- Strategic risk register
- Strategic risk heat score
- Early-warning indicator status
- Scenario severity headroom
- Strategic assumption validity
- What are the five risks most likely to derail our strategy?
- How would our strategy hold up under a severe but plausible scenario?
- What early-warning signals are we monitoring?
- Where do we have optionality if assumptions break?
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