GRC Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical GRC Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any GRC related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated GRC specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the GRC Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 991 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which GRC improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 991 standard requirements:


1. How will you align your resources with a strategy that optimizes the use of your people, processes, information, and technology to keep your organization agile, resilient, and lean?
   
   

2. Which type of non compliance does situation of your organization using evaluation version of software provided by vendor beyond specified number of days without paying for it?
   
   

3. How can other departments take advantage of a GRC software tool, and what benefits do you realize from having a single GRC platform shared across departments?
   
   

4. How does your organization ensure compliance is effectively understood, monitored and managed at all levels of your organization?
   
   

5. What are the steps that you need to take to ensure feedback from monitoring and review activity is considered and acted upon?
   
   

6. How would you rate the nature and effectiveness of interactions between IT risk/compliance and other areas of the business?
   
   

7. Do you have a centralized policy management function responsible for creating, assessing, approving and updating policies?
   
   

8. How aligned is your cyber risk and compliance program with the overall enterprise risk and compliance management program?
   
   

9. What business model is required to reliably achieve objectives while addressing uncertainty and acting with integrity?
   
   

10. Which of your IT or knowledge management initiatives are directly related to your IT risk and compliance initiatives?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the GRC book in PDF containing 991 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your GRC self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the GRC Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which GRC areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough GRC Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage GRC projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step GRC Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 GRC project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Human Resource Management Plan: How does the proposed individual meet each requirement?
   
   

2. Procurement Audit: Do staff involved in the various stages of the process have the appropriate skills and training to perform duties effectively?
   
   

3. Planning Process Group: What are the different approaches to building the WBS?
   
   

4. Roles and Responsibilities: Are GRC project team roles and responsibilities identified and documented?
   
   

5. Scope Management Plan: Are you spending the right amount of money for specific tasks?
   
   

6. WBS Dictionary: Are the latest revised estimates of costs at completion compared with the established budgets at appropriate levels and causes of variances identified?
   
   

7. Decision Log: Do strategies and tactics aimed at less than full control reduce the costs of management or simply shift the cost burden?
   
   

8. Lessons Learned: How well prepared were you to receive GRC project deliverables?
   
   

9. Source Selection Criteria: How important is cost in the source selection decision relative to past performance and technical considerations?
   
   

10. Activity Duration Estimates: How can others help GRC project managers understand your organizational context for GRC projects?


 
Step-by-step and complete GRC Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 GRC project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 GRC project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 GRC project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 GRC project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 GRC project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 GRC project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any GRC project with this in-depth GRC Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose GRC projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in GRC and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make GRC investments work better.

This GRC All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.