Friday, May 23, 2008

Examples of the individual kinds of risk

The first stage of the risk identification begins the developments of a firm specific risk tree with the collection of all risks affecting the company targets and. The following illustration outlines example of a risk categorization:
Technological risks (business risks)

  • Knowledge deficit: Is your enterprise strongly pending from the technological change?
  • Does the danger of the “obsolescence” of the knowledge exist?
  • Are there new processes in production?
  • Are the downtimes how high?
  • Is the production process susceptible to system crashes?

etc.

Achievement-economical risks (business risks)

  • Procurement side: Does a dependence exist opposite few suppliers (single sourcing)?
  • Are there substitution possibilities on the procurement side?
  • Do they have problems with quality fluctuations with the input factors?
  • Do they have problems with quality fluctuations with the output factors?
  • Is the error frequency how high? Does it come due to wrong planning/vote frequently to extensions of deadline of projects/orders?
  • Do you work process orientated?
  • How does the vote between the individual functions take place?
  • Research and development: Is the enterprise strengthens a technological change suspended (for example IT industry)?

etc.


Financialeconomical risks (business risks)

  • Are the demand losses how high?
  • Are the agreed upon dates of payment kept by the customers?
  • Are liquid means/collateral present to sufficient extent?
  • Are Finanzierungspielräume present?
  • Does their enterprise derivatives financial instruments begin?
  • Does your enterprise depend strongly on varying market prices?

etc.

Corporate Governance (business risks)

  • Do you have problems with the procurement of qualified personnel?
  • Are the fluctuation rates how high?
  • Do they have a location disadvantage?
  • Do they observe motivation and integrity gaps in the enterprise?
  • Is time absent/disease days how high per annum?
  • Do they have a team culture in the enterprise?
  • How would you characterize the style of leadership in the enterprise? (More autocratically, authoritarian, bureaucratic ones, democratic ones, formal one, cooperative, laissez-faire, Liberalisti, Patriarchali, charismatic style of leadership)
  • Try the strengths and the weaknesses of the organisational culture regarding customer, coworker, innovative, quality, to specify result and achievement orientation.
  • Would you regard the organisational culture of your enterprise as “autopilot” for the implicit steering of the coworkers?

etc.

Social risks (business risks)

  • Was the enterprise already confronted with trade restrictions?
  • Exist does the danger of a strike/a riot in the company (addresses abroad?) /Sabotage/terrorism?
  • Are cases of unfaithfulness/negligent behavior well-known with you?

etc.

Natural occurences (external risks)

  • Do you have an address/a manufacturing plant in an earthquake-endangered area?
  • Do you have an address/a manufacturing plant in an flooding-endangered area?
  • Do you have an address/a manufacturing plant in an storm-endangered/hurricane-endanger area?

etc.

Social risks (external risks)

  • Do they know cases of break-down theft/robbery in your enterprise?
  • Does the danger of sabotage exist?

etc.

Political risks (external risks)

  • Do you have an address/a manufacturing plant in a theater of war/war-endanger area?
  • Is the enterprise subject to frequent changes of the legal sets of rules and regulations?
  • Does the danger of nationalizations exist?
  • Does the danger of a putsch exist?

etc.


Technical risks (external risks)

  • Does a increased fire risk (high fire load) exist?
  • Does a increased explosion risk exist?
  • Does a bottleneck factor in your production (machine etc.) exist?
  • Does a increased collapse risk exist?
  • Have do you increases transport damages?

etc.


Personal risks (external risks)

  • How many compulsorily notifiable (BG) accidents registered you per annum?
  • Are there caused deaths by accident?

etc.


Alternative risk categorization
External risks

  • Natural occurences
  • Political changes
  • Social changes
  • Shifts of the market/new markets
  • Legal developments
  • Economic developments
  • Supervision-legal changes
  • Shifts of the branch trends
  • Technical changes

Operational risks

  • Logistics/selling
  • IT security
  • Humanly ressources
  • Environmental risks
  • Contract risks
  • Project risks
  • Customer satisfaction
  • Quality
  • “Health and Safety”/industrial safety
  • Criminal actions
  • Supplier
  • Price strategy
  • Customer perspective (loyalty etc.)
  • Production development
  • Mark value
  • Production risks
  • run cycle management
  • Financial risks
  • Liquidity
  • Credit rating/debtor management
  • Credit risk
  • Investment control and - planning
  • Taxes
  • Derivatives
  • Kapitalumschlag
  • Company pension scheme
  • Financing control/- planning

etc.


Strategic risks

  • Market shares
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Joint venture
  • Resource allocation
  • Humanly Capital
  • Capacities
  • Structure and sequence organization
  • Alliances
  • Crisis communication and - management

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