How to Choose Risk Tools That Actually Help Decisions
Description
If you reach for the nearest “risk” template, it might cause more problems.
There are two very different jobs we ask risk tools to do. In this episode, we talk about how to pick the one that actually moves your project forward.
- identification tools for unknown unknowns (like FMEA and preliminary hazard analysis) that systematically surface risks to users, systems, and environments
- decision tools for known unknowns that clarify impact, likelihood, and uncertainty so teams can choose a path with confidence.
Along the way, we call out organizational risks—supplier failure, regulation shifts, competitor timing—that belong in resilience planning, not product FMEAs.
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ABOUT DIANNA
Dianna Deeney is a quality advocate for product development with over 25 years of experience in manufacturing. She is president of Deeney Enterprises, LLC, which helps organizations and people improve engineering design.
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