Business Goals and Objectives (BGO) anchor a risk assessment in what the organisation is actually trying to achieve. Linking them to a demand makes explicit which strategic outcomes the assessed risk could support or endanger.

By documenting the goals and objectives at stake, you can:

  • Justify the assessment: show which business outcomes make this risk worth analysing.
  • Prioritise consistently: risks that threaten major objectives deserve faster, deeper treatment.
  • Communicate with stakeholders: executives read risk far better when it is framed against their own goals.
  • Keep security aligned: risk work stays connected to strategy instead of running as a parallel exercise.

2. Add BGOs to the demand

In the Business Goals and Objectives section of the demand:

  • Click the '+' button on the right.
  • Select one or more goals from your workspace's Business Goals and Objectives catalogue, then confirm with Add BGO.
  • Repeat as needed to cover every objective the demand touches.

For each linked BGO you can also set:

  • BGO Timeline: the horizon on which the objective matters, from your Business Goals and Objectives Timelines catalogue.
  • Plan Type: the kind of plan the objective belongs to, from your Plan Types catalogue.

Tip: The available goals, timelines and plan types are workspace catalogues, editable in the Databases module under Configuration Catalogs. Curate them once and every demand picks from the same, consistent list.