Insights into risk solutions – systems, compliance, audit & risk management

Welcome to Risk Solutions Insights. Here you will find case studies, fact sheets, articles and technical information.
Insights cover audit and assessment relating to performance management, conduct & operational risk, risk management and compliance. As well latest developments on the effect business culture has on the delivery of business objectives and outcomes.
The new norm – impact on internal auditing
Covid-19 has accelerated the need for change. We’re likely to face extensive remote working, with fewer people, either because of illness or ...
Regulatory focus on behaviour and outcomes, are you ready?
The forever Regulatory focus on behaviour and outcomes increased even more following Andrew Bailey’s, CEO of the Financial Conduct Authority ...
Focusing internal audits to improve performance targets and compliance
The UK National Health Service have concluded that having targets for target sake doesn’t improve patient care i.e. performance outcomes. This ...
Compliance, Corporate culture and senior management
Compliance – Senior Managers Competence Regime (SMCR), why it affects us all? SMCR outlines a set of responsibilities and conduct risks. ...
Feedback & Participation – Audit, risk & assessment
Feedback to and from “The Crowd” is not optional when striving for business success Crowd source auditing is effective because it involves “The” ...
Cultural Analytics turning qualitative to quantitative data
Have you ever noticed that following poor business performance, for example, Deepwater Horizon, Stafford Hospital and Supply chain failures, ...
Targets, Outputs or Outcomes?
Is it time to change how we think about targets? NHS England recently announced it was overhauling NHS targets for A&E departments along with ...
Block Chain Auditing – Breaking through Organisational Silos
How block chain auditing can help you see the woods from the trees. I recently read a very interesting article by Dr Jacqueline Conway from ...
Organisational Culture – Businesses urged to ‘do more’ to win public contracts
Why Organisational Culture is more important than price to many public sector bodies Reports are emerging that supports the movement towards ...
What is an audit? What is objective evidence? How do you audit culture?
Auditing mechanistic and organic systems. What objective evidence do we really need? There are two types of system, mechanistic and organic or. ...
Digitising Health & Safety risk assessments
The challenge of digitising Health & Safety Was speaking with a colleague about the digitising Health & Safety risk assessments. The ...
Cultural Analysis and artificial intelligence
The importance of measuring cultural analysis Have you ever noticed that following poor business performance such as Deepwater Horizon, Staples and ...
IP exploitation managing the risk & opportunity
How good IP exploitation can increase value and reduce risk? Managing IP value and risk is important to the exploitation of Intellectual Property. ...
Digitising risk and compliance
Much of our life has gone digital, so why aren’t we digitising risk and compliance? We can sometimes take for granted how much of our lives ...
How do you measure corporate culture – the art?
How do you measure corporate culture? This video explains the art to measuring corporate culture without using surveys, or auditors. Real examples ...
Health & safety checks, how do we ensure these are carried out
How health & safety auditing can be improved by HPO RS Vista The Challenge Lets consider the needs and challenges of businesses carrying out ...
Blockchain or crowd based auditing, what is it?
Enhancing audit techniques using blockchain Exposing risk to compliance and performance management using blockchain based auditing. Colin Rosam ...
Audit – The challenge of using non-auditors as auditors
Have you ever asked an employee to audit another team? If so, this is what you may be experiencing and the challenges they be facing. The ...
Risk Management, System, culture & compliance
An understanding of how mechanistic and organic systems influence the design and implementation of a compliance, performance & risk management ...
Supply chain management auditing the risk
An article exploring the assessment of conduct risk, operational risk and compliance to enable supply chain management. This uses blockchain ...
Audit case study
A real example of how RS Vista uncovered risk of non-compliance in a people & competence management process A case study showing the audit and ...
Surveys vs HPO RS Vista what is the difference?
Surveys vs HPO RS Vista & how we improve audit, assessment, suvey & inspection methods when reviewing corporate culture, risk and ...