Episode 53 — Selecting Responses for Opportunities
Opportunity management uses the same rigor applied to threats, framed for upside. This episode defines the four strategies: exploit, share, enhance, and accept. You will learn to decide which one fits by assessing control, resources, and timing. Exploit ensures an opportunity occurs, share allocates benefit and responsibility with a partner, enhance increases probability or impact, and accept recognizes potential benefit without added effort. On the PMI-RMP exam, stems often test whether you can choose an action that fits opportunity dynamics rather than threat language.
We present relatable cases: exploiting a favorable market by fast-tracking launch, sharing innovation with a supplier under gain-share terms, enhancing probability through staff cross-training, and accepting minor efficiency benefits already within scope. Best practices include documenting benefit assumptions, assigning opportunity owners, and integrating realization steps into performance metrics. Troubleshooting guidance addresses overstatement of benefits, missing accountability for shared opportunities, and ignoring opportunity–threat interactions. Balanced response selection proves you view risk as the full spectrum of uncertainty—a hallmark of advanced risk maturity. Produced by BareMetalCyber.com, where you’ll find more cyber audio courses, books, and information to strengthen your educational path. Also, if you want to stay up to date with the latest news, visit DailyCyber.News for a newsletter you can use, and a daily podcast you can commute with.
