Event details
Boards want clearer accountability, faster insight and greater confidence that controls are actually working. At the same time, risk and assurance teams are being asked to do more with less: more coverage, more scrutiny, more reporting, more evidence and more expectation from the business.
Yet many organisations are still relying on fragmented systems, manual reporting, inconsistent processes and backward-looking board packs. The result is often a risk and assurance environment that looks busy, but does not always provide the confidence leaders need to make better decisions.
In this on-demand webinar, Michael Rasmussen, GRC Analyst and Pundit at GRC20/20, joins Clew to explore what is changing in risk and assurance, why many programmes stall, and what “good” looks like now.
The session looks at how organisations can move from reactive reporting to decision-ready insight, from control existence to control confidence, from fragmented assurance to orchestration, and from risk as a handbrake to risk and assurance as a navigation system for the business.
What you’ll learn
In this webinar, we cover:
- Why risk and assurance are at a crossroads, and why the traditional model is under pressure
- How board expectations are changing, and why “risk reporting” is no longer enough
- Why many risk and assurance programmes stall because of fragmented tooling, inconsistent processes, weak evidence and noisy metrics
- How to move beyond the rear-view mirror of historical reporting towards forward-looking, decision-ready insight
- Why risk management must be anchored in business objectives, not simply risk registers
- What control confidence really means, and why assurance must prove whether controls work, not just whether they exist
- How orchestration connects strategy, process, information and technology into a more coherent model
- Why metrics need thresholds, ownership, escalation and context if they are to trigger action
- How risk and assurance can become a navigation system that helps the business move forward with confidence
Who this session is for
This webinar is designed for:
- Chief Risk Officers
- Heads of Risk and Assurance
- Heads of Internal Audit
- Compliance and control leaders
- Executive sponsors responsible for governance, risk and resilience
- Board and audit committee stakeholders
- Senior leaders accountable for business performance, control effectiveness and assurance
Why this matters now
For many years, organisations managed risk as if stability was the norm and disruption was the exception. Annual assessments, quarterly reporting, periodic control reviews and static risk registers were designed for a slower, more predictable environment.
That is no longer the world most organisations operate in.
Regulatory change, cyber threats, supply chain disruption, economic volatility, geopolitical uncertainty, operational resilience, artificial intelligence, data governance, privacy, sustainability and customer expectations are all creating pressure at the same time. These risks do not arrive neatly or separately. They interact, compound and cascade.
A cyber issue can become an operational resilience failure. An operational resilience failure can become a customer harm issue. A customer harm issue can become a regulatory issue. A regulatory issue can become a reputational issue.
In this environment, risk and assurance need to do more than document what happened. They need to help the organisation see what is changing, where confidence is weakening, where decisions are needed and whether objectives remain achievable.
When boards ask, “Are we in control?”, they are not asking for a bigger risk register.
They are asking for clarity on:
- Accountability: who owns what, and what is being done about it
- Confidence: what is working, what is drifting and where the evidence is credible
- Insight: where decisions need to be made now, not after the reporting cycle
- Outcomes: how risk and assurance protect objectives, performance and resilience
Why watch?
Watch this session if you want to:
- Move beyond fragmented reporting and manual board pack creation
- Understand why traditional risk and assurance models are struggling to keep pace
- Build a clearer line of sight from objectives to risks, controls, assurance, evidence and performance
- Shift assurance from proving control existence to proving control effectiveness
- Reduce noise and create metrics that leaders can actually use
- Strengthen accountability across risk, control and assurance activity
- Help the business take the right risks with greater confidence
- See how a connected risk and assurance platform can support better decisions
Featuring
Michael Rasmussen
GRC Analyst & Pundit
GRC20/20 Research, LLC
Michael Rasmussen is one of the most recognised voices in the global governance, risk and compliance community. He is widely known for his work in shaping the GRC discipline and advises organisations around the world on how to make risk, compliance and assurance work through better strategy, process and technology.
Keith Ricketts
VP of Marketing
Clew
Keith Ricketts hosts the session on behalf of Clew, a risk and assurance software platform helping organisations connect objectives, risks, controls, assurance activity and performance into a single joined-up view.
