Risk Sharing

Sharing is a response strategy for a positive risk (an opportunity) in which the team allocates some ownership of the opportunity to a third party best able to capture it – for example through a partnership, joint venture or shared-risk contract.

By sharing, both parties gain from the opportunity, and the one best positioned to realise it takes a leading role. It mirrors transferring a threat, but for an upside rather than a downside.

Related: risk exploiting, risk enhancement, risk transference.

Last updated: 4 July 2026 · By Tom, PMP-certified since 2004

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