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Governance Management Quiz

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 The language of governance is consistent throughout our organisation
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No
 Governance intent is clearly understood at all levels within the organisation
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No
 We are readily able to identify governance centres of excellent and communicate this knowledge to other areas of the organisation
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 There is a statement or series of statements that describe the current state of governance maturity in the organisation for all recognized governance frameworks
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 We do not need to measure our governance standards against any international frameworks or best practice models
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 There is a statement or series of statements that describe a desired state of governance maturity in the organisation for all recognized governance frameworks
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 We do not need to assess our governance performance against our competitors
Key Assumptions

To assist organisations in the pursuit of better governance, Governance Manager relies on a number of key assumptions:

Belief that our customers genuinely believe that their organisations will benefit from enhanced standards of governance.
Desire that our customer have a desire to meet this need
Role that our customers have a role to play in addressing this need
Action that our customers have the capacity to act towards achieving the results below, which are consistent with their belief in good governance
End Game being perceived as a market and thought leader by building a well-governed organisation where governance is approached in a systematic fashion, continuous improvement is measured over time, and reliable data is generated to support additional business development activities
Opportunities For Value

Governance Manager delivers a number of key outcomes that support governance initiatives at every level in an organisation:

Alignment Drive greater alignment for governance intent both through and across an organisation by communicating governance concepts in a common language.
Documentation Ensure that all parties to a governance framework have a shared understanding of a current state of maturity and a desired state that is embraced as an organisational aspiration.
Measurement Truly understand where there are misalignments in governance intent within an organisation, accurately identify key focus areas and maturity gaps, and report against these in a comprehensive and consistent format.
Learning Gather organisation best practices wherever they present themselves, and use a flexible instrument for distributing this learning to other functional areas that may be encountering similar governance challenges.
How can Governance Manager help?

  • Establish a consistent approach to the assessment, measurement, management and reporting of governance
  • Create a central repository for all governance information
  • Use a common language for governance throughout the organisation, irrespective of governance discipline or framework
  • Enable multiple levels of oversight for governance initiatives
  • Report on governance maturity individually, as a sector, by region, or a range of other benchmark comparators
  • Create a culture of continuous governance improvement with defined and measurable goals
  • Highlight common challenges and celebrate common strengths or centres of excellence
  • Capture governance best practices to facilitate organisational learning and development, as well as fostering tacit knowledge retention
  • Report on governance maturity levels at a sophisticated level with executive dashboards and drill down granularity
  • Empower internal audit to accurately monitor governance levels
Governance Challenges

Demographics Governance ‘consumers’ come in all shapes and sizes, with different enabling legislation, capital structures, obligations, and desired outcomes
Expectations Parties may have differing levels of understanding as to their obligations
Maturity Baseline It is difficult to improve what you cannot measure, and no baseline currently exists for governance maturity in any single discipline, let alone a cross disciplinary baseline
Advocacy Resources Good governance can be costly, and the disciplines of governance tend to be acquired over many years of pragmatic management.

Governance Manager is an instrument that enables organisations to assess, measure, manage, and report on governance issues in real time. Using a central governance repository, it offers a single mode of operation and a common language for governance activities.

Currently deployed in the US, Europe, Asia and Africa; Governance Manager caters to a broad array of governance frameworks and supports compliance with a variety of local and international standards.



Governance has always been a feature of sound management. It is only in the last century that the pace and complexity of the world has required recognizing these practices as a separate discipline. The same traditional values apply, it is just that governing them has become so much more complex.

Good governance implies honesty, integrity, accountability, good conduct, and an underlying principle of fairness in business dealings. Governments, investors, regulators, employees and other stakeholders all demand good governance in the contemporary commercial environment.

Good governance plays a key role in ensuring that all of the appropriate mechanisms are in place to maximize the chances of success, whilst minimizing the risk associated with doing business.

Solutions Comparison
Free Trial Assessment Enterprise Peak body
Ecosystem Governance Management
Measure, manage and report governance capability maturity collectively and comparatively
Supports peak bodies, governments, industry sectors, associations, and groups of companies
Supports multiple busines units, and divisions
Supports a single organisation assessment
Reports
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Management reporting (capability maturity, performance)
Improvement reporting (agreed actions, action priorities)
Comparative benchmarking (intra organisational)
Industry comparative benchmarking (inter organisational)
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Assessments
Current Governance maturity
Strategic Governance management (define future/desired states of governance capability maturity)
Compliance Governance management (define minimum or recommended standards of governance, as mandatory targets, or guidance)
Create and manage assessments
Add maturity justifications for every rating
Upload evidence / attachments
Add and manage team comments
Maturity track changes / audit functionality
Improvement Management
View suggested improvement (provides best practice recommendations and detailed improvement actions to remediate gaps)
Action Management
Manage agreed actions, tasks allocations schedules, costs, timelines, supporting document and reporting
Frameworks
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Custom Governance frameworks (supports custom or organisation specific framework development and deployment)