Best practice risk management solutions, helping you to reduce risks and exploit opportunities in your business, programmes and projects.
Professional Services
Risk Decisions' unique approach supports this cycle of continual improvement. However, as risk management is about so much more than technology, we offer a wide range of professional services and training to support your journey to effective risk management.
In organisations where risk management is effective, there is an ongoing process of continual improvement, involving changes to culture, practices, skills, knowledge and technology.
There are eight points that mark the journey to effective risk management:
Culture Change
Getting everyone involved: Risk Management will only be fully effective once your organisation has made it part of 'business as usual. Our most successful implementations start with helping to secure top-level support. Following through with the process definition and implementation, we will help you manage change required to embed risk management as part of your organisation's culture.Timely Reporting
By having the culture and process embedded, together with the Predict! risk software, we can really help you streamline the risk reporting process. By doing this, the fire-fighting approach of spending days compiling management reports will disappear, and we will help you to get to the information - where you need it and when you need it - and help to assure that the quality of that information is robust and consistentEffective Decision Making
By helping you to embed the culture change and streamline your risk processes and reporting, we will empower you to be decisive and informed through all levels of your organisation. We can help you to ask the right questions, and obtain the right information to allow you to make the right decisions for your organisationWider Stakeholder Engagement
Through robust processes and guidance, making risk management easier through our Predict! software, and a clear structure for managing and reporting risks, we can make it easier for you to getting everyone doing risk management, whether it's your management, people working at grass roots, sub-contractors or any stakeholder for that matter.Improved chances of success
Through improved risk maturity and behaviour, we will take you through the steps to make risk management work, and help you to be successful in your ventures.Better Reputation & Relationships
With our help, you will get everybody involved in the risk process, heading towards a realistic and common goal of success through risk management. By working collaboratively in a good cultural environment, with consistent processes, risk management should help to forest understanding and communication, and improve relationships through out your organisation, and outside of it.
Senior Management Engagement
For risk management to be fully effective it is crucial for an organisation’s senior management team to play a proactive part in risk management. Most of our fundamental work involves helping secure top level support for embedding risk management as part of your organisation’s culture, as well as setting the right behavioural example. For example, our Risk Masterclass helps senior managers understand their role in achieving this.
Healthchecks & Recommendations
We help to understand the health of your existing risk management practice compared with recognised good practice. This gives us a baseline from which to make practical recommendations for a results-driven approach to improving risk management.
Task Definition & Planning
Together, we help to define your requirements and develop a clear, focused plan of action to meet these. This involves the relevant stakeholders in your organisation to create the right structure and framework for effective risk management.
Process Definition & Implementation
Our experienced consultants can support you in creating the appropriate risk management framework for your organisation. Our facilitated workshops help you to ensure that the right process are implemented into your framework.
Predict! Software Configuration and Deployment
Our Predict! software is the only risk tool flexible enough to adapt to the way you manage risk and opportunities, whichever standard you follow, without the need for expensive customisation. Our state-of-the-art interface can be as simple or as advanced as each part of your business needs it to be. Our Configuration Workshop helps you get the maximum benefit from Predict!’s ability to match your organisation’s structure and risk process. This reduces rollout costs, whilst improving take-up and long-term productivity.
Training & Coaching
Our focus is to transfer risk management skills and expertise to your organisation. To ensure you get the best return on your investment, we provide a range of Predict! training courses for users and administrators, as well as best-practice risk management process training to ensure your people have a consistent understanding of risk management techniques and their practical application. We can help you to make better decisions based on Predict!’s reports, and support bid submissions with risk analysis.
Ongoing Support
Risk Decisions’ support services have a long standing reputation for providing responsive, knowledgeable and friendly advice to Predict! users. The Annual Support and Maintenance contract also gives access to software upgrades: our invitation-only Customer Advisory Group plays a major role in determining the road map for these upgrades.
Continuous Improvement
We all recognise that change and improvement are a continual process. By sharing best practice, Risk Decisions will assist you to embed risk management practices that will help you meet your business objectives, improve your competitive advantage and profitability. We publish the quarterly Risk Matters newsletter, hold a conference each year, and provide support to customer user groups.
