Acceptance of Risk Taking
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.