Ostrava 8.-9. zan 2010
5. mezinarodnf konference Rizeni a modelovanf finanćnfch rizik VŚB-TU Ostrava, Ekonomicka fakulta, katedra Financf
Nominał Group Technique |
• Encourages and allows all participants to contribute • Allows for different levels of competence in common language • To a large extent, autodocumenting • Provides ideał base for affinity diagramming (grouping by risk categories for use in the Risk Breakdown Structure and Root Cause Analysis) |
• Can lead to frustration in dominant members who feel it is moving slowly |
• Good briefing of all participant in the technique • Strict facilitation |
Post-project reviews/Lessons learned/Historical Information |
• Leverages previous experience • Prevents making the same mistakes or missing the same opportunities twice • Enhances the Organizational Process Assets |
• Limited to those risks that have occurred previously • Information is frequently incomplete: details of past risks may not include details of successful resolution; ineffective strategies are rarely documented • Creative generation of ideas |
• Weil structured project lessons learned database • Participation of previous project team members (ideally including the project manager) |
Prompt Lists |
• Ensures coverage of all types of risk • Stimulates creativity |
• Topie can be too high level |
• Choice of list relevant to the project and its environment |
Questionnaire |
• Encourages broad thinking to the identify risks |
• Success depends on the quality of the questions • Limited to the topics covered by the questions • Can be a simple reformatting of a checklist |
• Clear and unambiguous questions • Detailed briefing of respondents |
Risk Breakdown structure (RBS) |
• Offers a framework for other risk identification techniąues such as brainstorming • Ensures coverage of all types of risk • Test for blind spots or omissions |
• Nonę |
• Requires a comprehensive RBS, often tailored to the project |
Root-Cause Analysis |
• Allows identification of additional, dependent risks • Allows the organization to identify risks that may be related because of their common root causes • Basis for development of pre-emptive and comprehensive responses • Can serve to reduce apparent complexity |
• Most risk management techniques are organized by individual risk. This organization is not conducive to identifying the root causes • Can oversimplify and hide existence of other potential causes • There may be no valid strategy available for addressing the root cause once it has been identified |
• Ability to identify if a risk is an outeome of a morę fundamental cause • Willingness by management to accept and address the root cause rather than adopting partial workarounds |