May 13, 2025
From Pilot to Capability: The Journey to Operationalise CRQ
James Hanbury
Global Lead Director, Co-founder

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James Hanbury
Global Lead Director, Co-founder
James is the co-founder and Global Lead Director of CRI. He has spent over a decade working with cyber and risk teams, helping them bring more structure and clarity to how cyber risk is measured and communicated. James began building the earliest versions of CRI's models back in 2016, using Excel to explore how organisations could approach cyber risk in a more decision-focused way. That work has since grown into a SaaS-enabled capability now used by clients around the world. Based in London, James continues to work closely with CRI's clients and partners, focusing on how to make cyber risk quantification useful, explainable, and easier to adopt in practice.
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From Pilot to Capability: The Journey to Operationalise CRQ

CRQ can’t remain a pilot forever. To drive meaningful, repeatable value, it needs to mature into a business capability: trusted, embedded, and regularly informing decisions.

In this article, I share a four-stage CRQ maturity ladder. Each stage includes key actions to take, potential blockers, and traps to avoid. Together, these offer a roadmap to help CRQ evolve from a promising experiment to a business-critical capability.

We'll cover:

  • Stage 1: Explore and demonstrate value
  • Stage 2: Expand use and build confidence
  • Stage 3: Standardise and operationalise
  • Stage 4: Embed as capability
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CRQ in action
From Pilot to Capability: The Journey to Operationalise CRQ

CRQ can’t remain a pilot forever. To drive meaningful, repeatable value, it needs to mature into a business capability: trusted, embedded, and regularly informing decisions.

In this article, I share a four-stage CRQ maturity ladder. Each stage includes key actions to take, potential blockers, and traps to avoid. Together, these offer a roadmap to help CRQ evolve from a promising experiment to a business-critical capability.

We'll cover:

  • Stage 1: Explore and demonstrate value
  • Stage 2: Expand use and build confidence
  • Stage 3: Standardise and operationalise
  • Stage 4: Embed as capability
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