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Acceptance of Risk Taking

B2

Promote a positive attitude towards informed risk-taking.

Improvement Planning

Practices-Outcomes-Metrics (POM)

Representative POMs are described for Acceptance of Risk Taking at each level of maturity.

2Basic
  • Practice
    Informal system or forum for sharing ‘learning opportunities’ in use in parts of the IT organization.
    Outcome
    Trust develops to share ‘negative’ outcomes with peers and managers in pockets of the IT organization.
    Metrics
    • # recorded ‘failures’.
    • # learning points taken from ‘failures’.
    • # changes in processes (etc.) to reflect learning points.
3Intermediate
  • Practice
    Effective risk taking accepted and ‘failure’ viewed as a learning opportunity across the IT organization.
    Outcome
    Trust develops to share ‘negative’ outcomes with peers and managers within the IT organization.
    Metrics
    • # recorded ‘failures’.
    • # learning points taken from ‘failures’.
    • # changes in processes (etc.) to reflect learning points.
4Advanced
  • Practice
    Effective risk taking recognized as a strength across the enterprise.
    Outcomes
    • Trust develops to share ‘negative’ outcomes across the enterprise.
    • Expectation of failure built into goal setting to facilitate experimental learning.
    Metrics
    • # recorded ‘failures’.
    • # learning points taken from ‘failures’.
    • # changes in processes (etc.) to reflect learning points.
5Optimized
  • Practice
    Effective risk taking trained as a skill through the enterprise and best methods are shared with partners, customers, or suppliers beyond the enterprise.
    Outcomes
    • Trust develops to share ‘negative’ outcomes with peers and managers beyond the enterprise.
    • Best methods are shared with business partners.
    Metrics
    • # recorded ‘failures’.
    • # learning points taken from ‘failures’.
    • # changes in processes (etc.) to reflect learning points.