APC026
Recalibrate risk weighting factors when material incidents or organisational changes contradict existing scores, documenting each adjustment.
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Regulations
Risk Assessment Consistency vs Changing Risk Conditions
Business ContextConsistent risk criteria allow audit leadership to compare business units, processes, and periods systematically. Rapid changes in technology, regulation, operations, or external conditions can make historical criteria less representative of actual exposure.
Audit TRIZ ResolutionMaintain stable core risk dimensions while allowing selected variables and weighting factors to change when conditions justify it. This preserves comparability without forcing new risks into assessment structures designed for different circumstances.
Applicable TRIZ Principles
Principle 15 – Dynamics allows selected assessment parameters to adapt as the environment changes.
Principle 35 – Parameter Changes modifies risk weights, thresholds, or indicators when their significance changes.
Principle 23 – Feedback uses actual incidents and control performance to recalibrate risk assessment.
Expected Outcome
More current risk assessments
Preserved enterprise comparability
Better emerging-risk representation
Reduced dependence on outdated ratings
Decision Indicators
Risk scores remain stable despite major organizational changes.
New risks fit poorly within existing assessment categories.
Auditors override formal scores frequently using undocumented judgment.
Historical weighting drives current priorities despite changed conditions.
Significant incidents contradict previously assigned risk levels.