RISK AND RESILIENCE

HEALTH CHECK

 

When did you last check that your risk and resilience processes are fit for purpose?

 

Benefit from quick, flexible access to independent risk and resilience expertise; introducing our Risk and Resilience Health Check.

For over thirty years we have been helping senior executives cope with the complex organisational change aspects of governance, risk or compliance, in diverse organisations right across the world.

Our Senior Director, Robert Toogood, is an independent digital risk and resilience specialist, who enjoys helping clients navigate and solve difficult compliance challenges in the digital space on a flexible, part-time basis. With proven expertise in compliance remediation and turnaround for enterprise, programme and technology risk management problems, he delivers value by providing pragmatic, critical friend advice and hands-on support.

Robert's real-world compliance remediation and programme turnaround experience spans over thirty years, based on a successful systems and project management background working on digital transformation and M&A programmes with clients across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Prior to that, he started his career in the banking sector when he worked for NatWest Bank and SG Warburg before spending time in other highly regulated sectors such as financial services and healthcare.

His broad digital risk and resilience experience begins in 2002, initially with Johnson & Johnson and their business continuity activities within the UK (and later involvement with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance and pandemic planning preparations). Since then, his experience has expanded with other clients into areas such as data governance, compliance, privacy (including GDPR), data analytics, cyber, third-party risk management (TPRM), holistic GRC, and artificial intelligence. Also, as part of a commitment to lifelong learning, he's started an AI Leadership Skills Bootcamp at the University of Portsmouth to enhance and extend his real-world AI expertise to better support clients with their compliance challenges in this increasingly important area.

CUSTOMISED FOR YOU

Our Risk and Resilience Health Check is customised to meet the specific needs of each client. In working with you, we promise to:

• PASSIONATELY and enthusiastically care about you and your problems/challenges;
• Work in PARTNERSHIP with and not in isolation from you, acting as your conscience and sounding board but challenging when appropriate;
• LISTEN to you and not impose pre-conceived solutions, taking time to properly understand the context in which you operate and only then, use our experience to provide appropriate feedback and innovative solutions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OUR APPROACH

In delivering the Risk and Resilience Health Check, we use our five-step ORDER™ approach to undertake this work for you:

STEP 1: Overview... CONTEXT

The first and most important part of our health check is to get an overview of your business and the environment in which it is operating.  This understanding provides us with the important context from which to undertake your review and subsequent activities.

STEP 2: Review... ASSESSMENT

Using this understanding, we pragmatically review your current risk and resilience activities against our unique assessment framework. This framework uses established best practice guidance from organisations such as the International Standards Organisation (ISO), Institute of Risk Management (IRM), Project Management Institute (PMI), and other respected authorities. Our evaluation is reality based and not theoretically driven; it is based on the real-world in which we all live and work… so we leverage on real-life experiences and learnings.

STEP 3: Develop... ANALYSIS

With this feedback, we analyse the data we have collected and use this to identify any gaps that should be the subject of further discussion and potentially, remediation.

STEP 4: Evolve... PLANNING

Once we have completed our analysis, we consolidate our findings and produce a formal report that includes a prioritised action plan which can then be used as the foundation of subsequent activities.

STEP 5: Report... NEXT STEPS

Finally, we present our report to you so together we can discuss our findings and agree next steps.

BENEFITS

Summarising, our Risk and Resilience Health Check:

• Is INDEPENDENTLY delivered using real-life experience and reference to international best practice and research;
• Makes PRACTICAL prioritised suggestions as to how weaknesses can be addressed and strengths more effectively used;
• Offers PEACE OF MIND about whether your current processes are still efficient, effective and fit for purpose.

INTERESTED?

Contact Robert Toogood direct on +44 (0)1983 617241 or via email to discuss how we can help you, on a completely confidential and non-obligation basis.