Functional Planning

Change is a part of every day life and the better able your organisation is, to deal with change, the more resilient and ambitious your business can afford to be.  Gone are the days when we can all go to the same office and sit at the same desk to perform exactly the same task …

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Business Planning

Since you have been following the ‘Doing Good Business Well’ methodology you will have collected a bunch of Business Objectives by now.  This will be a set of ‘targets’ that your leadership team have already confirmed offer welcome business benefits, in line with strategy.   Business Objective (be specific)  e.g. Redesign Website in line with new …

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Review Progress

GROW, CHANGE and THRIVE Asses substantial change, review progress, continually improve. Reviewing business performance alongside the checks and balances that are in place, helps you to ensure that the risks your business is taking are delivering what it actually needs. You would also do well to encourage your business leaders to be alert to and …

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Reporting Downwards

When we covered the topic ‘Shining a Light on Reporting’ we gave an insight into the ideal way to collect indicators from all front line staff, which will show the Leadership Team how well the business is coping with what they are already doing.  We talked about collecting indicators across performance, governance, control, risk and …

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Risk Appetite

Where Do We Want to Take The Most / Least Risk? Traditionally, it’s only been very large companies that talk in this sort of language, or even think about such tasks as creating risk appetite statements, but many small to medium organisations are also learning this approach now, finding it really helps them to get …

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