Our Services
Strategy Roadmap
Every successful journey begins with a plan, and your GRC deployment is no different. A successful GRC program balances the needs for immediate business value against long-term architectural underpinnings and processes. The identification of business needs, inter-dependencies, iterative "wins" and a long- term vision is more art than science. Our strategic consultants typically have more than ten years of experience deploying solutions and are skilled at charting your course to success.
Our experience deploying solutions across multiple GRC Platforms allows us to efficiently design, develop and implement practical solutions that meet your needs, demonstrating clear ROI and business efficiency. Our services reflect the agility of a highly skilled firm with a complete focus on client satisfaction.
Program Creation
Having a plan is great. Executing it effectively is something else. You wouldn't cast off for a long journey on a vessel that isn't seaworthy or provisioned. Why compromise when it comes to the structure that supports everything you do within GRC? Your GRC program or "center of excellence" is an often-overlooked yet critical component of a successful GRC deployment. An effective program ensures supportable and industry-leading solutions, operations on environments that are responsive and available, and the appropriate support and ownership amongst stakeholders. Our best practice approach typically includes the following:
- Ownership: Roles and responsibilities of platform owners, solution owners and data owners, along with definition of record, reporting and user interface administrators.
- Change Management: A system for approval and coordination of all changes, including a mechanism for developers to track concurrent work and promotion of code within the same components.
- Support: Request prioritization, approval, work queues, staffing plan, and SLAs. An access control strategy (frequently a hybrid hierarchy-based and role-based model) with quick reference guides for quick and efficient administration of access changes.
- Environment: Full operational procedures, including access control, data management, copy-down procedures, separation of duties, recovery and troubleshooting, and more.
- Development: Full suite of development best practices, oversight of development efforts across teams (from outside consultants to in-house developers), and knowledge transfer and support documentation for new builds.
Solution Development
Pack your bags, sit back and enjoy the journey! Whatever your tool or solution, we've likely deployed it before. In fact, there's a good chance we helped create it. Our team will work with your business stakeholders to define business requirements, create a best-class solution design, and build and deploy it within your environments or one of ours.
Operations Support
On a long journey - everyone needs a break. Let our team take the wheel! Whether you call it staff augmentation, virtual administrator staff support, - we have the right crew to work under the direction of your Captain. We can configure access control, manage environments, complete change requests or even build and deploy simple solutions. Our team can allow you to react to unanticipated staffing needs or even serve as a long-term solution for managing your Archer environment.
Content Management
The real value of GRC management frameworks and tools are the way they house, relate and present content to users. The challenge, however, is configuring and managing these valuable tools so they sustainably deliver their intended functionality as expected. Having a system without content would be like leaving for a journey without provisions. Whether importing and relating Regulatory Requirements (Authoritative Sources), performing bulk updates to records, or even creating a customized content package - we can help.
Compliance Assessments
Whether evaluating your organization against regulations and best practices, or completing a "pre-audit" - you can put the experience our consultants have to work for you. Through testing and evaluation - we can help you find your opportunities amongst the sea of regulations and metrics you're measured against.