Risikomanagement

Risc Management Checklists, Literature extract from: Art Gemmer, Risk Management: Moving Beyond Process, in: computer, IEEE, May 1997, pp. 33- 42

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Todsünden des Risikomanagements
Cultural Rule: Observed Behavior
View each person´s decision-making capability as invariant: Equate decisionmaking
capability with IQ; don´t forget people´s failures; don´t involve others
in decision making; don´t share the rationale for desicions made; donßt trust
others to make decisions; dont share information, which is power; reward „lone
rangers“.
View uncertainty as a negative:
Believe the team can´t fail: deny the uncertainty of events or decisions; don´t
expect variances in performance; think of things as black or white.
Don´t ask for risk information:
Shoot the messenger (bearer of bad news); argue away information that
conflicts with the team´s assumptions, decisions, or success (groupthink);
allow people to learn what information to report by trial and error; filter bad
news out (show only good news); say „There´s no evidence to the contrary!“
or „No news is good news!“ without looking for it; assume the competition is
weak or incompetent; don´t raise issues that might reflect poorly on upper
management.
Don´t bring forward risks or problems without solutions:
Expect problems and risks to be brought forward already solved; think of risks
as something that can be solved (risks are managed, not solved); don

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