The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Risk Academy, a Nexortium programmeRisk Science and MethodsDepartment of Risk Management
Failed processes, people, systems and events, and the services that must keep running
Operational risk is the risk that something inside the organisation fails; continuity is how the important services survive it.
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Twin figures for the central Apennines: L'Aquila, Amatrice and Norcia, counted from its layers at their stated dates.
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The discipline teaches operational risk taxonomies and loss event data, controls and control testing, key risk indicators, business impact analysis with recovery time objectives and impact tolerances, continuity strategies under ISO 22301:2019, operational resilience of important services, outsourcing and third parties, and human factors. A graduate can run a business impact analysis, set the indicators that signal a change in risk and write the continuity plan that keeps a service inside its tolerance.
This area covers the risks of failed processes, people, systems and external events, and how organisations keep important services running: operational risk taxonomies and loss data, controls and key risk indicators, business impact analysis, continuity strategies, operational resilience and outsourcing. It is taught in the department of Risk Management, Faculty of Risk Science and Methods, through 2 courses with it as primary discipline.
8 subtopics, taught across its courses and labs.
Recent developments in operational risk and business continuity, each with its source; sources checked on 16 October 2026. Summaries are short readings of the source; follow the link for the full account.
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From the Academy's risk taxonomy: the discipline's own entries and those of its primary courses, with how many courses teach each.
No course with this primary discipline is open yet; these are planned, so you can prepare with the courses also taught here.
Courses with this primary discipline0 open, 2 in preparation
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