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When Was Your Last 360° Risk Scan?

10th December 2025

Most Surrey businesses deal with risks every day without realising it. A delayed supplier, a key staff member leaving, a cyber incident that nearly happened, a client that quietly makes up 30% of revenue. Things return to normal this time, but the underlying risk stays hidden until the timing is less forgiving.
A simple question brings this into focus: When was the last time your business completed a 360° risk scan?

For many business owners, the honest answer is either “over a year ago” or “never”.
During my time as an Insight Director at Kantar, I learned the importance of consciously identifying and evaluating risks. My manager pushed our team to think ahead: exchange rate swings, client exposure, project delays, contract language, system failures. Once you start looking, you realise how many risks are quietly operating in the background of a business.

Here is a quick round-up of five risks many SMEs overlook:

1. Changing a Core Product
A seemingly small tweak can affect customer expectations, operational processes and profitability. Without structured evaluation, change can create unintended issues.

2. Spearphishing of a Senior Employee
Cybercriminals increasingly target a single decision maker, not the whole organisation. One well-crafted email can trigger financial loss or data exposure.

3. Overreliance on Key Clients
Even profitable businesses can be fragile if a large share of revenue depends on one or two clients. A strategic shift or budget cut on their side can create sudden instability.

4. Inadequate IT Disaster Recovery Planning
From server outages to SaaS downtime, many companies rely on technology far more than they realise. Recovery plans are often incomplete or outdated.

5. Skills Gaps or Shortages
Rapid change in digital tools, automation and AI often outpaces staff capacity. Skills gaps can limit delivery, increase errors and slow down response times.
These issues are common, but completely manageable once they are identified early and assigned clear mitigation actions. The challenge is doing this consistently, without relying on static spreadsheets or irregular one-off audits.

That is why Risknado was built, a simple lifetime-access tool that helps businesses identify risks, score them, prioritise them and track mitigation progress in one place. It includes a pre-built library of business risks, making the first 360° scan fast and easy for any team.
If you’d like to explore how your business could benefit from a structured risk scan, visit Risknado.com