Architecture.
How should this work?
A defined design: the structures, processes, responsibilities, controls, information and technology through which a company or institution operates coherently. Governance Architecture is HIBS's distinctive discipline, applied with the other disciplines the problem requires.
A design ready to be put into operation, with governance that works in practice and holds as people and circumstances change.
- COSO ERM
- COBIT 2019
- ISO 31000
- ISO/IEC 27001
- ISO 9001
- ISO 22301
- DORA
- NIS2
- EU AI Act
Layers of the architecture.
Governance
How direction, oversight and accountability are exercised.
- Governance Structures
- Responsibility and Accountability
- Management Mechanisms
- Transformation Governance
Operating Structures
How work is organised, coordinated and delivered, within a business and across the entities, functions and providers it depends on.
- Operating-Model Design
- Structural Simplification
- Process Design
- Operational Standardisation
- Service Delivery Structures
- Service Design and Improvement
- Integration, Separation and Post-Integration Stabilisation
- HR Structures and Policies
Risk, Control and Compliance
How the client stays within its limits, meets its obligations and withstands disruption.
- Enterprise Risk Management
- Controls
- Management Systems and Policies
- Third-Party Risk and Operational Resilience
- Regulatory Obligations
- Compliance Programmes
- Governance and Compliance Office Design
- Technology and Operational Controls
Information and Technology
How information moves, and how technology is governed, secured and connected to the work it serves.
- Technology Governance
- Technology Operating Models
- Information Security Governance
- AI Governance
Operating-model design for scale
Responsibilities, management mechanisms and structures designed for the next stage, not the last one.
Technology and AI governance before scale
Accountability, controls and oversight for technology and AI, set up before growth makes them harder to change.
An enterprise sales requirement
A management system in place and run by the company's own team, ready for independent certification.
An acquisition
One operating model and one governance structure across every jurisdiction.
A new regulation
The requirements built into existing processes.
HIBS exists to solve complex systemic problems.
Set out the situation. If Architecture is where the work starts, the first conversation establishes its scope; if not, it establishes where to begin.