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Fast approaching documentation deadlines? |
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What would it be like if you could replace weeks of information gathering with a one-day workshop? |
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Issues with operations staff availability? |
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What would it be like if the staff time required for knowledge capture, process walk-throughs and remediation planning could be cut in half? |
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Program cost and effectiveness concerns? |
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What would it be like if operations, IT, compliance and auditors had a common language for speeding up their collaborative work? |
One of the core activities and biggest time-consumers in achieving and maintaining Sarbanes-Oxley compliance is collaborative solutions development: people working in teams to discover, model, evaluate and improve both control processes and the compliance processes surrounding them.
And three of the biggest time-consumers within collaborative solutions development
for SOX are:
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capturing process knowledge and risk evaluations from operations staff,
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designing, improving and implementing compliance procedures, and
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planning and implementing compliance program activities.
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Why? Because
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the "hard part" of these this work involves individual participants making intense use of their abilities in process analysis, design, communication and consensus-building, |
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particular strength in these abilities is not widely-distributed, and |
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there is often little structure and direction for the use of these abilities, in meetings,
at the point of doing the work. |
We offer a solution that dramatically accelerates collaborative solutions development results. It's called the ActionMap Toolkit. It's based on hundreds of work sessions with organizations like HP, Chevron, Hunt-Wesson & PG&E, on projects ranging from major business expansions to detailed process designs. The ActionMap Toolkit includes a compact process improvement cycle that is ideally suited to the detailed process mapping and improvement activities in SOX programs.
Typical results from a one-day workshop using the ActionMap Toolkit include:
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Detailed process maps for 5 to 7 large processes or 20 to 30 control processes |
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100 to 150 prioritized evaluations of the target process areas
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20 to 30 prioritized follow-up action items with assignments and due dates |
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Supplemental measures, notes and illustrations
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Detailed cross-referenced knowledge and consensus on all this material
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Delivered as a service, a transferable skill and as software, the Toolkit can be:
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Immediately applied to quickly document large areas of financial and IT control activity, producing detailed, team-validated process maps, evaluations and action plans, and |
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Systematically applied to increase your SOX program's near- and long terms efficiency and effectiveness, by accelerating and improving team collaborative solutions development results |
To learn more about how ActionMap can contribute to the success of your Sarbanes-Oxley compliance program, please contact us.
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