Risk and opportunity must coexist in business every day. 

• Focus only on risk, and your business will become stagnant. 
• Ignore the risk for opportunity alone, and you will outpace your resources. 

Somewhere in between Kodak and Pets.com lies the successful business. Every time you make a business plan, decide annual goals, update a budget, and introduce major changes to your business, you are automatically shifting the balance of opportunity and risk. 

When this happens, add a step to your plan to analyze risks and opportunities: everything you risk losing, and everything you hope to gain with this plan or change. This course will teach you an analytical framework for conducting this analysis so that you are always aware of what you stand to lose and what you can truly gain for your business.

Who should take this course?

• Business owners
• Department heads
• Unit managers
• Decision-makers in a business

The course provides worksheets for the exercises. Come to the table with your business plan, or budget, or goal, or another moment of major decision or change in your business. Analyze that decision as you go through the course.