It’s in your business…
There are two aspects to technology risk management. One lies within the technology itself, the other is lurking in your organisation.
The technology part is easy. You have vendors to honour warranties, service agreements to ensure service and technicians to fix problems.
It’s the non-technical elements that expose you to the highest risk because lurking within your organisation are…
Users!
Users and their expectations are the single biggest issue you need to address in your technology risk management plan. They don’t know what they want, then change their mind when you’ve built something. They complain, they are uncooperative. They are human.
So your risk management plan needs to take all this into account. There is no way you can implement a quality assurance process if the system generated risks are not taken into account. The system in case is your organisation. And the people are more than just participants, they are your system…
