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Board Assurance Framework Overview

The Board Assurance Framework (BAF) is a key mechanism to help executive teams reinforce strategic focus and ensure better risk management.

The BAF provides a structure that enables the organisation to focus on all activity, from Risks to Projects, that might compromise the achievement of its corporate Outcomes and Objectives. It assures the organisation that key controls and processes are in place and effectively mitigates any adverse impacts.

The following document details the sections and functionality within the Ideagen Healthcare Guardian Board Assurance Framework. The Ideagen Healthcare Guardian Board Assurance Framework is designed to collate information already input and maintained within the Ideagen Healthcare Guardian Plan, Performance, Project and Risk Apps.

Board Assurance Framework Overview

The BAF consists of three interactive areas;

• Board Assurance Framework Overview
• Assurance by Outcome
• Strategic Risk and Controls Register

The Board Assurance Framework Overview provides a top-level view of the corporate outcomes and next-level supporting objectives, associated risks, linked controls and required assurance actions.

Corporate Outcomes and Objectives

The Corporate Outcomes and Objectives section displays a cause-and-effect diagram of the corporate plan outcomes and each of their next-level supporting objectives. Each card on the diagram can show the current overall performance of the item using its Status measure.

The cause-and-effect map is interactive. To fully explore each outcome and its supporting objectives, you can use the expand icon highlighted below to turn the map into a full-page view.

Once in full page view, you simply move the cards on the map around to reposition and, by hovering your mouse over the cards, choose to expand from the card its impacting or impacted items.

Double-clicking on a card will also provide you with the innovative Ideagen Healthcare Guardian performance pop-up, which will give you a single view of the selected items' performance, commentary, associated measures, actions, and impact items, including risks, projects and driver objectives.

To return to the BAF Overview page, simply use the expand icon again to restore the cause-and-effect widget to its on-page size.

Strategic Risks

Strategic risks are classified as any risk that has been identified to directly impact an outcome of the corporate plan.

The strategic risks are displayed as alert cards in a Kanban visualisation and grouped via PESTLE categories (other groupings can be configured). The alert cards are colour coded in line with the risk matrix and consist of the current (residual) risk score, area performance chart showing a trend, risk name and risk owner.

Double-click to access the performance pop-up to see details, including likelihood and consequence scores, mitigating actions and updated commentary to see more information about risk.

Strategic Risks Outside of Target

The strategic Risks by Exception section brings the risks that require the most attention right to you. Based on the risk target (appetite), Risks where the current residual rating is worse than the target (appetite) rating will be displayed.

To see more information about a risk, click the analysis icon on the table to access the risk performance pop-up.

Strategic Risk Controls

All controls that are linked to the strategic risks are displayed in sunburst visualisation. The inner circle of the sunburst displays the risks and is coloured based on their current risk score. The outer circle shows the controls associated with the risk and is coloured based on the control's current effectiveness rating.

Red Rated Control Effectiveness

Controls by exception bring the controls that have been rated as the least effective right to you. The table will display the current effectiveness rating and the narrative provided around the gap in assurance.

Assurance Actions

Assurance actions display all actions that have been created to improve or review a risk control.

The actions are displayed as cards in a Kanban visualisation and grouped by action stage. The cards are colour coded based on the latest action performance rating and display completion percentage, priority, owner, action name and start and due dates.