COMPEL Glossary / strategic-risk
Strategic Risk
Strategic risk encompasses threats to an organization's fundamental strategy, competitive position, or long-term viability, including the risk of falling behind competitors in AI capability, making wrong technology platform bets, failing to attract and retain AI talent, or being disrupted by AI-native competitors.
What this means in practice
Unlike operational risks that affect current performance, strategic risks affect the organization's future relevance and survival. For organizations, AI introduces both strategic risks from inaction (being disrupted) and strategic risks from poor action (investing in wrong technologies or approaches). In COMPEL, strategic risk assessment is part of Module 3.1, Article 9 on strategic risk and resilience at the AITGP level.
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