Auditing System and Process Risk - November 2012

The objective of the day is to: 

• Review well-known audit failures, drawing conclusions to recognise that the audit process must change
• Review other drivers of change including reduced budgets and increased expectations
• Describe why auditing needs to be both backward and forward looking to provide management with the 'vision' of potential risk to the deliver of objectives
• Understand new emerging Auditing techniques that seek to assess the impact or importance of people's behaviour on the delivery of business objectives, making visible what is often invisible until the related risks to poor performance or unintended events become reality
• Report risks to the delivery of objectives / outcomes to Senior Management in their language using risk profiles, scores/graphs and benchmarks between groups, teams and sites from which improvement activity can be more effectively targeted

The aim of the day is to understand the constraints of current methods and introduce new performance based assessment techniques. These report risk to the delivery of objectives and other performance drivers based on what really happens and not just what is written down.  The day will therefore not cover compliance auditing, questioning technique, audit planning or non-conformance writing.

It is unlikely that delegates would fully benefit from this course if they do not understand the issues and content outlined in the Strategic Quality course.

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