Complex systems, made coherent.
HIBS exists to solve complex systemic problems. As a multidisciplinary practice, it brings governance, risk and compliance, information security, operations, technology and human resources into one view, and works across the public and private sectors with companies and institutions.
Independent · Multidisciplinary · Governance Architecture
HIBS works with systems, across disciplines.
No single discipline sees the whole. HIBS brings the disciplines a problem needs into one view.
Complexity is a given.
Companies and institutions are rarely designed in one go. Each change leaves something behind, until responsibilities, controls and reporting describe an earlier version of them.
What appears as a problem in one function is often a property of the whole. We do not assume the symptom is the problem.
Governance Architecture designs the structures, responsibilities, controls and operating mechanisms through which a company or institution is directed, controlled and run, and keeps them coherent with how it operates and what it is trying to achieve.
A saving in one place can create a larger cost in another.
A target can be met while the outcome it measures gets worse.
Treating the symptom can leave the cause in place.
Every intervention starts with an accurate understanding of how things actually operate.
What system is producing this outcome?
ApproachAdvisory. Architecture. Solutions. Assurance.
HIBS advises, designs, implements and independently assures the structures and solutions that effective governance, sustainable operations and long-term value creation require.
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Advisory
What is happening, what matters, and what should we do?
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Architecture
How should this work?
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Solutions
How do we make this available and work in practice?
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Assurance
Does this meet the relevant criteria, and what evidence supports that conclusion?
HIBS does not audit what it designed or implemented.
Our work is designed to ensure that governance works in practice and endures.
Many engagements begin before anything is under pressure.
Governance review before investment or exit
An evidence-based view of how the company is governed and run, before investors or acquirers examine it.
AdvisoryOperating-model design for scale
Responsibilities, management mechanisms and structures designed for the next stage, not the last one.
ArchitectureReadiness for audit or due diligence
Governance, controls and evidence prepared before an auditor, regulator or enterprise customer reviews them.
AssuranceIndependent governance review for the board
An opinion that rests on evidence, reported to the board or committee, on work HIBS did not design or implement.
AssuranceTechnology and AI governance before scale
Accountability, controls and oversight for technology and AI, set up before growth makes them harder to change.
Architecture
Five engagements, five starting points.
- An enterprise sales requirementArchitecture
- A management system in place and run by the company's own team, ready for independent certification.
- An acquisitionArchitecture
- One operating model and one governance structure across every jurisdiction.
- A divestmentSolutions
- Standalone governance and reporting operating from day one, and a structured exit from the services the parent had provided.
- A buy-side diligence questionAdvisory
- Governance maturity and risk established before signing, with a remediation roadmap the acquirer could act on from completion.
- A new regulationArchitecture
- The requirements built into existing processes.
Companies, institutions, investors and advisers.
From start-ups to public institutions, held to the standard large, regulated enterprises expect.
Companies and Institutions
Technology-enabled and established companies, and public institutions: growing, changing or under scrutiny, where the work crosses the boundaries of any one function, adviser or discipline.
Investors
An investment thesis depends on a company capable of executing it. HIBS assesses that capability before investment and strengthens it afterwards.
Advisers and Providers
Consulting, technology and service providers whose delivery has run into a problem on a client mandate. HIBS advises on what is producing it and how to resolve it.
HIBS exists to solve complex systemic problems.
Set out the situation: what is being built, what is changing, what is not working, or where an independent view is needed. If the problem is not yet defined, defining it is where the first conversation begins.