Reputational Risk
Reputational risk refers to the potential harm to an organization's reputation and credibility as a result of its actions or decisions.
Reputational risk refers to the potential harm to an organization's reputation and credibility as a result of its actions or decisions.
Organisational change can be very hard to achieve since organisations are naturally protective of themselves and the status quo. Setting up an OSPO and beginning an open source journey will seem like a risky and dangerous proposition for many parts of an organisation.
It is generally preferable if an Open Source Contribution Policy can be enforced via tooling (so called policy as code). However, often policy will refer to behaviours and expectations of staff which cannot be controlled through systems. In these cases, training courses will be needed to help promote desired behaviours.