CASE STUDY
approach to risk management, focusing
on taking action to mitigate threats and
exploit opportunities, with substantial time
and cost savings as a result.”
The results
Streamlined, centralised risk
management
“SureCloud’s platform has moved us away
from using a series of disparate spreadsheets
and countless emails for recording risk –
with all of the potentials for errors that
entails – to a single, centralised source of risk
information for every member of staff,” said
Whitestone. “It’s dynamic and agile – if we
want to get a snapshot of risk for a particular
department or function, we can.”
Intuitive and easy-to-use
“Despite us being at the start of our risk
management journey, we are very pleased
with how quickly staff can get to grips
with the SureCloud platform, this was a
key factor for us,” said Whitestone. “They
can more or less log on and go – it’s
extremely intuitive and easy-to-use. In
turn, this means that it frees up a huge
amount of time spent manually inputting
or transferring information, which is a great
advantage for us.”
• A range of risk management
methodologies to understand the
likelihood, impact and overall risk rating
• Configurable drillable dashboards and
reports to provide a real-time snapshot of
risk at any time
SureCloud’s centralised, cloud-based
platform underpins the risk management
product, allowing anyone from across an
organisation deploying the application to
add information at any time, from anywhere.
DESPITE US BEING AT THE START OF
OUR RISK MANAGEMENT JOURNEY,
WE ARE VERY PLEASED WITH HOW
QUICKLY STAFF CAN GET TO GRIPS
WITH THE SURECLOUD PLATFORM.
Rapid implementation services
Office for Students worked with SureCloud to
configure the risk management application
to its precise needs and was ready for rollout
ahead of schedule.
“SureCloud got to grips with our
requirements incredibly quickly,” said Ben
Whitestone, Head of Governance at the
Office for Students. “As the only independent
regulator for higher education in England,
we regulate in the interests of hundreds of
thousands of students and we take that
responsibility very seriously.
Managing the risks we face is an
important part of our governance. But with
our legacy systems, we were focused more
on updating spreadsheets than actually
managing risk. SureCloud’s platform
is enabling us to take a far more agile
Systems and culture working together
“We undertook a great deal of work to evolve
our culture of risk management, to one that
was far more consistent and proactive,”
said Whitestone. “With SureCloud’s Risk
Management solution in place, we have the
systems to underpin that culture and enable
us to take a far more streamlined, agile and
accurate approach to help manage risk
across the organisation.” •
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