Well, apart from having a relationship with the quality management of an organization, the increased well-being of workers and the economic benefits of avoiding losses, there is the simple fact of life that, in many industries, you simply need to have a risk management system in place to be certified, or to be allowed to operate.
So, I guess that simply regulatory compliance is the main driver for the importance of risk management in organizations. Whether it is a good motivation is of course quite another issue...
Risk management is important in an organization because it permanently decisions are taken. In making decisions you try to look at the future being in the present. In this dynamic events with different levels of uncertainty are presented.
In every organization there are learning associated with certain events and their impacts. For this set of events you can model their occurrence and their impact, so as to observe an expected value, which together with the organization's attitude toward risk, you can configure a contingency associated with risk modeling.
The risk? Nothing simpler, yet more complex identifiable and especially to control. From the dawn of history, risks have been one of the biggest challenges for humanity and fascinating because of its omnipresence in all fields.
What is the risk? In classical theory acceptance of the decision, it is identified as an element that appears uncertain but possibly permanent in the social and human activities, whose effects are damaging and irreversible.
Given its many sources of threat communication within the organization on risk analysis it is of utmost importance.