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Qualitative Risk Analysis

By Exforsys | on March 22, 2009 |
Project Risk Management

Understanding Risk

Risk is best defined as the potential to suffer a loss. Having said that, risk management is described as a collection of methods which are designed to ensure that a company or organization is shielded against these risks as much as possible. While it is impossible to be prepared for every single problem that may come up, there are a group of key risks that most organizations should take the step to protect themselves against.

In order to create the proper priorities, one of the best options is to create a plan that can be used to locate the risks which need to be assessed. However, one question that you may run into at this point is the issue of which approach to use. When it comes to approaches, you have two basic options, the quantitative approach and the qualitative approach.

Risk assessment must be seen as the most important aspect of qualitative risk analysis. Once the risk assessment process begins, the process must be capable of analyzing multiple elements at the same time. You will need to take the time to figure out the stakes involve with the risk, and the resources which are vulnerable because of it.

You will have to think of the many scenarios that could occur, and the outcome must provide you with lowering the risks in question. You will need to take the time to develop an understanding involving the probability of an event occurring based on factors which are both internal and external. This will make it easier for you to make a risk assessment which is highly effective.

You must take the time to control as many factors as you possibly can. Some of the internal factors that you will need to consider include things such as historical information that comes from within the organization, as this allows you to make decisions based on a record of data which has been processed. Even if you do not think that the current data you are storing will be useful in the future, you will still need to take the time to collect it.

Business intelligence along with data warehouses can be very useful for this situation. The risks that every organization will face can be defined by the acronym STEEP, which stands for Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, and Political. No matter what risk you face, it will fall under one of these five categories.

Preparing Through Risk Assessment

It is crucially important to know when a qualitative risk assessment should be made. To do this, you will first need to learn the difference between an action which is preventive, and one which is corrective. Risk assessment must be thought of as being an action which is preventive, so this requires you to take steps to protect yourself before an unfortunate scenario occurs.

The corrective action is best described as the action that you will need to take in the event that a disaster occurs. Of course, if you have not taken any preventive actions, you may not be able to take corrective actions in the event of an emergency. One important aspect of disaster recovery is business continuity.

There are times when the subject of qualitative risk assessment will touch on areas such as mathematics and even philosophy. When you begin dealing with risk assessment, you must consider three things, and these are the things which are impossible, possible, and real. The issue of risk assessment involves things which are very possible.

The possible can be thought of as a thing which can occur but has not yet occurred. This issue is often defined through the view of human beings. It may also be thought of as probability. The key qualitative risk assessment and quantitative risk assessment is that qualitative risk assessment is a method for assessment that deals with the impact of risks that have been identified.

Based on this method, priorities can be established which are capable of handling potential risks, and this would largely be dependent on the impact that these risks will have if they manifest themselves.

One key characteristic qualitative model is the usage of the indexes which are subjective, and a good example of this is the ordinal hierarchy, and this includes things such as the low medium and critical benchmarks. In contrast, the quantitative risk analysis is designed to get numerical data which is related to the probability that a particular risk and its consequences will occur.

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