Dates: 26 October 2012
Venue: BAA, Heathrow

The twenty-eighth meeting of the Centres of Excellence Club (CofEe Club) will be hosted by BAA, at their offices in Heathrow on the 26th October 2012.

The topic for the day is Change assurance.

It was as long ago as 1513 that Machiavelli pointed out that achieving change is an inherently risky business.

Corporations’ and, in particular, senior management’s response to this recognition of the generic risks of change, is to ask the question, “If we are putting our hard-earned investment funds in harm’s way, how do we ensure we have an acceptable risk profile?” The less than satisfactory response to this perfectly reasonable question is, as often as not, to plunge headlong into activities of governance, assurance and compliance. Confused and muddled thinking about the relationships and roles of governance, assurance and compliance typically leads to heavy-duty processes, high levels of cost, slow delivery, considerable frustration, and ineffective risk management.

In this twenty-eighth CofEe Club event, we will demystify the role of, and routes to, effective change assurance.

We will uncover, through key-speakers and interactive workshops the three major themes of:

• The value of separating assurance from compliance
• Right-sizing assurance

What to assure. This will mean exploring, in workouts, the central concepts of:

• Differentiating authorisation from approval
• Understanding cost of failure
• Appropriate division of accountability from responsibility
• Understanding drivers for, and types of assurance against, the governance, executive and technical (GET) organiser.

CofEe Club is an invitation-only, membership-based network of like-minded professionals with responsibility for change, projects, programmes and portfolios in their organisations. Each quarter, a member organisation hosts a workshop at which a current hot topic is discussed, and experiences and concerns are shared.

If you are interested in becoming a member please email Richard Bateman at RBateman@citi.co.uk

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