Getting your organisational ‘house’ in order requires having the right governance frameworks in place.

Effective governance avoids being a ‘compliance burden’, and enables timely, ethical and appropriate decision making, which builds organisational accountability, reputation and culture.

Key elements of good governance design involve:

• accessability - information which is easily found and understood

• effectiveness - guidance that helps, not hinders, decision making

• interconnectedness - linkages within and beyond the organisation, and

• collective leadership - culture and behaviours which encourage organisation-wide leadership and participation.

We assess the integrity and practicability of governance frameworks through desktop reviews, interviews, workshops and surveys, and identify strategies and options to improve organisational performance.

Projects have included:

• Royal Australian Air Force: redesign of risk framework and creation of risk manual (4 month project)

• Murray-Darling Basin Authority: co-design of new Basin-wide salinity risk management framework (4 month project)

• Australian Public Service Commission: revised risk management framework

• Judo Australia: review of risk management framework

• Food Safety Australia New Zealand: review of risk management framework.