Overview of risk control ... more

• A simple introduction to risk management and internal control in organisations

Downloads (free) ... more

• A risk control mapping matrix template - free to download, adapt and use.

Risk control processes and human behaviour ... more

• Making sense of risk appetite, tolerance, and acceptance (revised)

• What happens when you say "uncertainty" instead of "risk"

• Measuring and managing risk register quality

• An introduction to the Risk Register Studies

Personal skills to manage risk & uncertainty ... more

• Open and honest about risk and uncertainty

• Individual differences in risk and uncertainty management

• Writing about flexible plans (A challenge of the new OFR)

Risk management reform ... more

• Problem areas for current risk management standards (speech at BSI)

• Requirements of Risk Management processes

Efficient audit & reviews ... more

• Sarbanes-Oxley Act section 404 and 302: efficient compliance (updated)

• A new focus for Turnbull compliance

Intelligent risk controls ... more

• Designing intelligent internal control systems

• Results of a survey on internal control and risk management recommendations

Productive, creative risk control projects ... more

• The Natural Method of designing internal control systems

• Matrix Mapping: the easiest and best way to map internal controls

Integrated risk & performance management ... more

• Risk Management and Beyond Budgeting

• How to embed risk management into performance management and strategy making

• Design ideas for Beyond Budgeting management information reports

Other food for thought

• The Campaign for Plain Maths starts here

Welcome...

...to a website that's packed to bursting with information and fresh ideas about risk and control that will help you expand your thinking and get better results more easily.

My name is Matthew Leitch and I help people improve the way they manage risk and uncertainty - or the way their organization does it. The next worthwhile improvement varies a lot from one case to the next so I don't have a fixed prescription and I spend a lot of time researching ideas, tools, and techniques, so that I usually have something good to suggest. I'm always on the lookout for things that are easy to do but have a profound beneficial effect.

It's taken years to develop this huge website and it's all freely available, but only because previous visitors have expressed their thanks in practical ways. They've contacted me for consulting help, or training, or helped with a research study, or given ideas for new topics or services, or sent links to colleagues, or just written to let me know what they liked.

If you like the site then it would be great if you did something too, because that's what has made this site the unique treasure trove it is. I'm always delighted to hear from people who genuinely want to make improvements and are open to ideas. (Having some money to spend is the icing on the cake.)

I've always tried to write things that haven't been written before, that matter, and that are some kind of valuable improvement over whatever has gone before. On some themes I seem to be virtually the only person writing serious material, even though I know a lot of people immediately find the topics interesting when they see my articles and presentations.

If you find any of these articles interesting then you will be in good company. This site is read by many people around the world and feedback shows that it is the experts who appreciate it most. My consulting clients over the last few years have included experts at BP, BT, Land Securities (who won an award for work I helped with), a leading Swiss bank, BDO Stoy Hayward, and the United States Army flew me to Arizona to give a presentation to 400 people on "Risk Management with Impact".

Please think of this site and my business as a source of insights and ideas to help you do what you want to do, and a source of practical help from someone who can work along with your approach.

This website is big! Something like two business books and still growing. And now there is a book, "Intelligent internal control and risk management", published by Gower. However, all this work rests on some simple beliefs:

• We get better results when we open our minds to uncertainty and plan accordingly.

• Internal control and risk management are really one thing, but with a lot of different techniques.

• Auditing is a skilled and valuable activity (and I've done a lot of it) but what internal control needs more of is people who focus on efficiency and are reponsible for getting things done.

• People and life do not work the way the management control textbooks say and it's the books that need to change.

Of course, a major reason this site exists is to encourage you to make contact with me. You can do that easily because this site gives you plenty of information about me, or at least my thinking, and because the contact pages are designed to clarify the basis of your contact and make sure I know exactly what you expect.

You can therefore be confident that I will not do anything unwelcome with information you provide - such as bombarding you with unwanted e-mails.

If any of this sounds like what you are looking for and, especially, if you think I may be able to help you make your ideas work in your organization please get in touch with me by e-mail at matthew@internalcontrolsdesign.co.uk or call me on 01372 815 856. I work from my office at home in Epsom, near London, UK.

I look forward to hearing from you.

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