Reputation risk needs more than sentiment and volume. Organisations should report reputation exposure with the same discipline used for financial risk — structured, contextualised, and connected to business consequence.
Most reputation issues are visible long before they become serious. The challenge is not visibility. The challenge is that early signals rarely appear urgent enough to trigger action.
Most reputation risks do not appear suddenly. They accumulate through unresolved issues, delayed decisions, and repeated signals long before they become visible externally.
Most reputation problems are visible long before organisations recognise them as serious. A practitioner's perspective on why delayed recognition increases reputational risk.