30 Collective Decidement Projects for Risk Management and Resilience

Project task: Contribute ideas on changes observed in operations and the external environment that could develop into material risks but are not yet monitored systematically.

Project task: Contribute examples of frequent small failures, their possible connections and a possible common underlying cause that could lead to a larger disruption.

Project task: Contribute ideas on where risk signals noticed by employees, customers or partners become stuck, are discounted or arrive too late.

Project task: Contribute ideas on internal and external groups with different perspectives on risk and ways to incorporate their knowledge into risk assessment.

Project task: Contribute ideas on clear qualitative and quantitative indicators that should initiate a broader review of the situation.

Project task: Contribute scenarios in which one or more assumptions critical to the organization would change, and identify the potential consequences.

Project task: Contribute compound scenarios that reveal possible interactions among operational, technological, financial, reputational or other risks.

Project task: Contribute ideas on decisions, plans or investments whose success depends too heavily on a single untested or unstable assumption.

Project task: Contribute ideas on the downstream effects that urgent decisions could have on people, customers, partners, reputation or long-term capabilities.

Project task: Contribute ideas on actions that would create value or reduce vulnerability regardless of which scenario ultimately unfolds.

Project task: Contribute ideas on single points of dependency whose loss would stop or materially weaken an important organizational activity.

Project task: Contribute ideas on tightly connected processes, systems or teams where a failure in one part could quickly affect the others.

Project task: Contribute ideas on data, expertise, access and physical resources whose unavailability would impair decision-making or business continuity.

Project task: Contribute ideas on supply-chain, infrastructure, regulatory, partner or other external relationships whose disruption is not adequately understood.

Project task: Contribute examples where rules or controls formally exist but are bypassed, difficult to apply or ineffective against the risks encountered in daily work.

Project task: Contribute ideas on changes to working habits, responsibilities, information flows or existing measures that could reduce risk without major investment.

Project task: Contribute ideas on controls, plans or indicators that appear reliable but may prove inadequate or fail under real conditions.

Project task: Contribute ideas on decision rights, roles and handoff boundaries whose ambiguity could delay action or increase harm during a crisis.

Project task: Contribute ideas on reserves of people, capabilities, data, technology, financing or supply that are essential to the continuity of critical activities.

Project task: Contribute and support preparedness actions that should be prioritized based on expected impact, feasibility and required resources.

Project task: Contribute ideas on the information needed during the first hours of a crisis, the criteria for judging its reliability and the fastest credible sources.

Project task: Contribute ideas on recurring or time-critical decisions for which prior authorization would enable faster and clearer action.

Project task: Contribute ideas on rapidly gathering essential insights from people closest to the situation and incorporating them into decision-making.

Project task: Contribute ideas on criteria and decision-making principles for balancing people's safety, business continuity, customer needs, financial considerations and reputation.

Project task: Contribute ideas on principles for transparent communication with employees, customers and partners when information is incomplete, changing or contradictory.

Project task: Contribute ideas on the sequence for restoring activities, services, relationships and capabilities, along with criteria for setting priorities.

Project task: Contribute ideas on indicators and evidence showing whether the organization has merely addressed visible consequences or has restored resilient operations.

Project task: Contribute ideas on safe ways to surface weaknesses in decisions, coordination and systems while maintaining accountability for necessary change.

Project task: Contribute ideas on temporary ways of working, partnerships or solutions that proved effective and could strengthen the organization under normal conditions.

Project task: Contribute ideas on turning identified lessons into a portfolio of priority changes, assigning accountability and monitoring their long-term impact.