CIO Executive Edge: Manage risk up!

Risk is a persistent issue in IT and it is based on the premise that you need to manage risk down, reducing it via various decisions, polices and investments. CIOs and IT executives see lower risk as a good thing, particular as it comes to operational systems and investments. That view defines risk as the potential for bad things to happen. It establishes a mind set of inspect and protect that keeps IT in an operationally safe risk managed box. The goal operationally is to manage risk down.