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52 Risks

52 Risks® is a free resource for investors, business owners, CEOs, finance executives, risk managers, academics and students to use to better understand business risks.

52 Risks® is the idea of Peter Deans, an Australian-based former Chief Risk Officer. Over his 30+ years career, Peter witnessed many businesses failing to meet their business and financial goals. In worse cases business got into severe financial distress and went out of business. Often business failure was contributed to by a failure to accurately assess and understand the risks inherent in their businesses. Drawing on this experience, 52 Risks® was created.

The aim has been to design a framework that is the definitive list of Strategic, Financial and Operational Risks that any business – irrespective of size and industry – need to be concerned about. The framework combines ‘top down’ and ‘bottom up’ analysis – in a clear and easy to follow format.

52 Risks® seeks to fill a void in contemporary management thinking. It will assist business owners, boards, executives and risk managers develop enterprise risk management frameworks and systems, better understand and manage risk, and improve strategic planning and business decision making.

Notwithoutrisk Group

The Notwithoutrisk Group, founded by former Chief Risk Officer Peter Deans, is an Australian-based firm that provides a specialist consulting offering addressing strategic planning, business planning and risk management services.

More information can be found here: http://www.notwithoutrisk.com

ShelfGRC Risk & Compliance Platform

Small to medium sized businesses lack affordable, easy-to-use tools to manage governance, risk, and compliance. Existing enterprise GRC platforms are too complex and costly for their needs. ShelfGRC, from Shelf Labs, fills the void and leverages off cutting edge analytics tools and technologies.

ShelfGRC’s risk taxonomy is powered by the 52 Risks® Framework.

Learn more about Shelf Labs and ShelfGRC here: www.shelflabs.io

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