How exposed is your next decision to human-system risk?
Before a major decision, change, or business issue becomes expensive, identify how much of the outcome may depend on human factors you cannot yet clearly see.
Human-system risk often exists before the problem does.
Leaders routinely make decisions about growth, hiring, restructuring, leadership, change, and execution without a clear view of the human system those decisions depend on.
The Human-System Risk Exposure Assessment helps you evaluate the conditions surrounding a specific decision, change, or business issue and determine how much attention the human system may deserve before you move forward.
Business impact
How consequential is the decision, change, or issue if it does not go as planned?
Human dependence
How much does success depend on the behavior, alignment, decisions, relationships, or response of the people involved?
Exposure & uncertainty
How much uncertainty, complexity, influence, resistance, or unknown human-system risk surrounds the situation?
Risk can be assessed before the move or after a problem appears.
Human-System Risk Exposure can be evaluated before an important decision or change, or when an issue is already affecting the business.
Preparing for a decision or change?
Evaluate the human-system conditions surrounding a major decision, restructuring, leadership transition, growth initiative, hiring or promotion decision, succession, transaction, or other important commitment before moving forward.
Dealing with an issue already affecting the business?
Evaluate the human-system conditions surrounding an issue already affecting execution, performance, communication, leadership, alignment, collaboration, or team effectiveness.
Assess your Human-System Risk Exposure.
Answer a short series of questions about the decision, change, or business issue you are navigating. Your results will indicate your current level of Human-System Risk Exposure and help clarify whether deeper investigation may be warranted.
This is an exposure assessment, not a prediction.
It does not determine whether a decision will succeed or fail. It helps identify how much uncertainty and potential risk may exist within the human system the outcome depends on.
Your exposure level is a starting point.
Risk exposure tells you how much attention the human system may deserve. It does not mean a decision will fail, a problem is inevitable, or that higher exposure automatically means you should stop.
Lower Exposure
Human-system conditions appear relatively manageable based on the information provided. Validate key assumptions and move forward with appropriate awareness.
Moderate Exposure
Human-system factors deserve closer attention. Clarifying assumptions, stakeholders, alignment, readiness, and execution conditions may reduce avoidable risk.
Higher Exposure
The outcome may depend heavily on human-system conditions that are uncertain or insufficiently understood. Deeper investigation may be warranted before significant commitments are made.
Exposure tells you where to look. Due diligence goes deeper.
When the assessment identifies meaningful Human-System Risk Exposure, the next question is not simply whether risk exists. It is what is creating that exposure and what it may mean for the decision or change.
Through founder-led Decision Risk Intelligence and Human-System Due Diligence, Rachel Edwards applies Insperai’s Adaptive Human Intelligence to the people responsible for making the decision work.
Model the people
Build multidimensional human models of the people responsible for execution.
Understand the system
Examine how the people, team dynamics, leadership conditions, and relevant environment interact.
Apply the decision
Interpret the human intelligence against the actual decision, change, transition, or business issue in front of you.
Know what you’re walking into before you walk into it.
If your results suggest meaningful exposure, you do not necessarily need to abandon the decision. You may need better intelligence before committing to it.