Every organization takes risks to achieve its goals. A startup racing to launch a product will accept more uncertainty than a nuclear plant. Governance needs a way to express how much risk is acceptable so that people across the organization make consistent decisions. Three concepts do this job: risk appetite, risk tolerance and risk ownership.
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