Aston Beck Risk Management

Why does my business exist?

Irrespective of market sector, delivering value to customers must be the prime purpose of any company, yet many companies struggle to differentiate or communicate their true value to the outside world.

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Cloud Transformation & Technical Debt

A Cloud Transformation programme can reverse years of underinvestment, and turn technical debt into technical wealth. But it's not as simple as asking IT to sort out the technology. This is a whole company transformation that needs to embrace all parts of our message on Digital Transformation.

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Managing Corporate Risk

To stay trading, organisational leaders must be supportive of lines of enquiry which uncover threats to the existence, products or profitability of the company, and take mitigating actions to reduce such risk.

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Products need to be Secure

Whatever stage of your digital transformation journey you are at, your company needs to stay trading. Digital products need security designed in from the beginning.

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Staying Compliant

To stay trading your company needs to be, and remain, compliant. Few business owners will say that they like regulation, but the consequences of not being compliant can stop you trading, so make sure that you have sufficient people making sure that you are.

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Risk Led Leadership

Leading your company – setting your objectives, making commitments, and managing your organisation's performance whilst being aware of the threats and opportunities that affect these outcomes is risk-led leadership. We explain our PACED approach to move into an uncertain future with confidence.

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Types of Business Risk

Poorly managed risks cause revenue, reputational and regulatory pain. We work with your leadership team to identify the threats to your ongoing success and then put in place effective mitigation.

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Business resilience - embedding cyber into digital transformation

Much of business is now a digital economy and it is essential to be ‘always on’. Any inability to offer a continuously available service almost certainly means loss of revenue and loss of reputation. Cyber security must be designed into technology from the start, and embedded in the culture.

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The truth about Agile

Agility is about leadership. Agile practice in the technology world has become purely following the method, rather than acceptance of the spirit, intention and principles, where its true value becomes evident. We discuss a number of success principles, to address the engineering waste we now see.

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Embracing chaos

We must recognise that despite our desire to control everything, we cannot. Simple principles can allow complex and dynamic situations to be managed successfully. By giving your staff autonomy to make decisions, backed up by tried and tested rules of thumb they will succeed where controls fail.