Corporate Governance And Strategy
We help your organisation achieve a more robust Corporate Governance System. Our work will enable you to achieve a better ranking and ethical profile for your organisation.
The benefits of working with us include:
- A more cost effective corporate governance function.
- Improved capacity for decision makers to adapt to an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world.
- Ability to better protect the overall value of your organisation and brand using our unique approach and methodology.
- A working culture that is able to better act on the opportunities and risks that matter the most.
Our expertise in this area are:
- In-depth knowledge of financial disclosure and Environment, Social & Governance (ESG) disclosure standards, policies and guidelines.
- Working knowledge across the public sector, corporate private sector and the charitable sector.
- Professional risk management and compliance management to an advanced level. We regularly coach and mentor staff.
In this increasingly fast paced and dynamic business environment, we enable organisations to develop better Strategy Management processes. Our work is focused in enabling our clients to be better respond to future events and maintain a strategic position in their sector.
These are the benefits of utilising our expertise and experience:
- Create opportunities, respond to challenges proactively.
- Develop, articulate and maintain unique strategic positions and develop partnerships.
- Capture strategic information that is actionable. Better utilise strategic knowledge of your organisation and the sector.
- An organisational culture in which your people are empowered to act strategically.
- Make sound investment decisions by building strategically positioned business cases.
- Ensure that strategy is integrated into governance, operations and partnerships.
- Utilise innovation, agile work practices and IT in way that generates strategic value.
Why Us?
We use a proven approach to achieve results.
Products
We deliver:
- Reports* and documentation aligned to globally accepted financial and non-financial standards, frameworks and guidelines.
- Original research on strategic opportunities and risks, evidence base and deep, focused insights.
- Governance Manuals – assessment, design and documentation and decision support
- Committees / Boards – assessment, design and documentation to gain mandate and commitment
- Control Processes, Policies and Procedures – assessment, design, documentation and IT-enablement, where applicable.
- Documentation, data and evidence to support reporting for IFRS, Integrated Reporting <IR> , GRI, TCFD and other standards for ESG
- Engagement Plans incorporating relevant stakeholders
- Strategy Collateral – documents, plans and blueprints
- Business Cases – analysis, design, documentation and decision support.
- Evaluations – we provide advice by systematically reviewing existing governance and strategy system
*Essence Networks Limited is not certified under the NZ Financial Markets Authority. We rely on our certified financial advisors to deliver regulated statements and advice.
Value for Money from IT investment in Governance
Significant business operations and internal controls are now implemented within IT systems. We enable organisations to develop skills and capability to generate genuine business benefits from IT investment, manage risk and reduce the cost of compliance.
Increasingly, a large proportion of business operating information is embedded in IT operations, infrastructure and databases.
We identify evaluating and supporting decision to adopt IT for good governance. We assist clients in their adoption of “IT GRC” solutions to support corporate governance, aligned to established and emerging ESG standards.
Our work ensures that organisations are better able to control cyber and data privacy risks.
We deliver:
- IT Assurance plans that are highly suited to the client organisation – aligned to governance and strategy objectives.
- Effective and efficient monitoring systems.
- Communications to support good governance and committee engagement by decision makers and subject experts.
- Detailed Information Systems assessments based on
- Information Security (ISO 2700 Series ) Standards
- Standards for Assurance and Quality Control as per professional bodies, IIA, ISACA and others.
- Attested IT Service specifications based on IT Service Management standards