Risk
and Priority Assessment Solutions
Today there is an expectation that most Government of
Canada (“GoC”) programs and initiatives are risk based and or informed by specific
evidence. Commonly, when challenged to account in these terms, departmental
responses are weak; as evidenced by recent Audit Finding reports from the
Office of the Auditor General of Canada (“OAG”)
Private sector organizations also grapple with how to
set priorities and advance decision making activities in a systematic, evidence
based manner. However, the business of coherently drawing-together risk
information has continued to challenge many organizations.
This challenge is
growing since, for example internal and external audits now routinely challenge
originations to account for how they have drawn-together risk information, used
in any risk-based program activity. To assist clients in meeting the needs for
systematically developing and reporting better, more meaningful risk
information, Impact Consulting has increasingly become involved in running/
facilitating risk assessment workshops/ priority setting polling sessions.
Impact Consulting, has invested in an
enabling technology for this purpose – a specialised electronic tool for
systematically pooling expert opinion - typically that of the client’s own
cadre of knowledge workers, SME, etc. - through a combination of facilitated
discussions and electronic voting; applying the Modified Delphi technique.
Examples where we have
recent provided risk and priority setting workshop services on behalf of both
public and sector clients include the following:
A conventional risk
assessment process for a branch or a department – with initial demographic polling
of the audience and an IRM terms and concepts section
A risk-informed, evidence-based options assessment
program
An exercise in polling of expert opinion to prioritize
and optimize resource allocations under a safety or security inspection regime
The use of the tool in the ideation phase of a focus
group initiative
An assessment and visualization of Core Competencies
and capacities
The use of the tool to determine the maturity levels
of a given program or initiative
Impact Consulting, owns an electronic
voting solution used, in this is setting, but also has insights into the use of
comparable offerings.
There are others, in
the National Capital Region who have technical qualifications to run an
audience response system - generically - but facilitators from Impact
Consulting are unique in their ability to providing this service, because all
applicable team members have meaningful risk management credentials, secret
security clearances and the ability to provide associated, integrated risk
assessment/ risk analysis and reporting services.
We look forward to hearing from you at the address
appearing below.
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Impact Consulting , 1826 Robertson
Road, Suite 407, Nepean, ON, K2H 1B9, CANADA
Phone: 613-727-0536 email: murchison
at impactconsulting.com (substitute @ for
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