What is Risk Prioritization & Mitigation?
Every organization faces risks—but the key to resilience is knowing which risks matter most and how to address them effectively. Risk Prioritization and Mitigation (RPM) is a data-driven approach that helps you identify, assess, and strategically mitigate risks that threaten your mission. By pinpointing risk at the intersection of threats, mission priorities, and vulnerabilities, RPM ensures you can allocate resources where they have the biggest impact. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, RPM enables you to prioritize threats efficiently and make informed strategic choices.
Regularly applied at a Department of Defense combat support agency, RPM characterizes and evaluates threats for specific risk to any mission or set of objectives, using qualitative and quantitative methods to strengthen national security efforts. RPM insights also feed into the TTI Gap Analysis and Prioritization (GAP) process, ensuring that risk management aligns seamlessly with mission objectives, capability development, and resource planning. RPM isn’t just about identifying risks—it’s about giving you a clear, strategic path to risk reduction so you can operate with confidence and resilience.
How We’ve Used RPM to Solve Challenges
Based on TTI’s work, a Department of Defense combat support agency benefited from optimizing organizational strategies and programs to rigorously defined and measured risk and risk-mitigation opportunities.
Now established as a repeatable process, our methodologies allow the combat support agency to address the realities of an evolving, complex operational environment with appropriate alignment to risk, thus illuminating opportunities to outpace threats posed by adversaries. Through our risk management methods, underserviced risks were characterized, prioritized, and paired with actionable mitigation actions, each measured for impact.
These metrics allow very focused elimination or mitigation of risk and a way to measure progress over time. Our findings fundamentally re-oriented the agency ‘s strategy and programs impactfully supporting National Security, National Defense, and National Military Strategies.
Learn more about our Strategic Design Approaches (SDA) for Risk Management here or contact us today to talk about your specific challenges!
