Distinctive approach

 

To grow corporate valuation in this economic environment.

Emphasized actions to achieve outcomes include:

• Managing risk to business performance by better managing risk in decision processes and individual decisions, both frequent (daily activities) and infrequent (investments or emergency response)
• Focusing on systems and causes instead of “loss events”
• Identifying and overcoming the three catalysts of risk – change, complexity and fatigue
• Making the sharp distinction between risk management program and actually managing risk to business objectives
• Managing risk must be simple in order to use it daily in a dynamic world. Complex risk management programs on top of daily complexity and change increases risk.
• Improving efficiency and effectiveness through performance-driven approaches to managing risk that draw on decades of proven practice in strategy, operations, finance and organizational change, rather than compliance/control-based approaches.
• Skill in managing risk as the ultimate differentiator

 

 

 

Services

 

Summary

• Evaluation of Risk - knowing the business, asking "what if?" and watching for warning signs
• Scenario analysis
• Response to Risk - prioritizing, improving, reacting and recovering
• Business cases for improvement
• Incentive alignment

 

Outcome acceleration

Core Fitness -- Managing risk to business performance the 5+2 way

• Managing risk to objectives is fundamental to business (strategy, products, sales, operations) as it is to sports, baking a cake or driving a car.
• As described in The Operational Risk Handbook, this workshop is designed to apply that practical performance-driven approach to provide more actionable insight for strategy plan, process and implementation decisions. Better decisions lead to better outcomes.

 

Scenario analysis – heart of managing risk

• Scenario analysis, asking "What if?" is the heart of managing risk.
• If this fails, all else fails.
• This workshop is designed for hands-on practice with this approach to bring more practical benefit to current business situations.

Traction time -- Activity-specific scenario analysis workshops.

• Focused on a single business area (e.g., line, geographic or product) they are rapid action to engage that team and better manage risk to operational and financial performance objectives.

Train the facilitator – a 3 step approach to build capacity for sustainable change in an organization.

• Step 1 is a knowledge transfer workshop where a group of facilitators is trained.
• Step 2 a trainer(s) assists a ValueBridge Advisors facilitator of a “Traction Time” workshop.
• Step 3 the trainee is the facilitator of a “Traction Time” workshop and a VaueBridge Advisors facilitator assists the trainee to “graduate” to independence.

Performance by paycheck – Managing risk through performance and compensation.

• Overcome the frequent problem of multiple measures (often made worse by so-called “risk appetite” statements) pulling people in multiple directions.
• Simplify and speed progress toward more efficient and effective daily management of risk as people make daily decisions.

Outcome acceleration delivery

• Outcome acceleration workshops
• “Teach to fish” personal guidance for the dynamics of your role and your organization
• Accelerator widgets -- diagnostics, actions and progress measures to accelerate alignment gap closure
• Conversation clarifiers to cut churn; and improve situational awareness and alignment with management, board or investors