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How to write an actionable risk
A risk earns its place by driving a decision. Write the scenario and the impact you actually mean — specific enough to act on, durable enough to outlast this quarter’s news.
What you'll learn
A risk earns its place by driving a decision. This video covers why vague or under-described risks stall in the register, and how to write one specific enough that two people would score it and treat it the same way.
- A too-general risk sits in the register but drives no action.
- "Data quality may be poor" hides several different problems with different fixes.
- Name the mechanism and the impact you actually mean.
- Test: would two people land on roughly the same score and the same fix?