Risk Management

Battleground helps to you confidently manage risks in the real world, where objectives, design and enablers must work together to protect and grow value.

What makes Battleground different

Battleground provides high quality, exceptional value, risk management solutions.

How do people in your organisation think about risk when making decisions?

The effective management of risk exists through alignment of objectives, operational design, enablers and performance to support people consistently making sound, risk-informed decisions.

Tailored to your specific needs and level of organisational risk maturity Battleground develop solutions including:

Issues Management

Structure and process design and implementation

Risk Appetite & Tolerance

Articulation & implementation in organisational decision making

Risk Profile

Facilitation, development & update in all business contexts e.g. strategic, operational, project, facilities

Risk Intelligence Platform

Innovative risk management that engages those who manage risk

Risk Informed Decision Making

Capture and validate the right data to make and execute better risk informed decisions

Risk Management that Protects and Grows Business Value

Recognising risks in the context of value protection and growth is how Battleground helps our clients to focus on the risks that really matter.

Managing risk in the real world

At Battleground, we recognise that the purpose of managing risk is to help organisations achieve their business objectives – to grow and protect value.

Our approach appreciates that risks exist within an organisational context – priorities, objectives, commitments, constraints and expectations and are managed through what an organisation does each day – business processes.

That is why our approach has business process at the core – because only by truly understanding their purpose, design, enablement and performance can you know if risks are being managed well.

Purpose

Understanding what business objectives, products and customer requirements the process enables supports a clear picture of what we must do in order to achieve our goals. Are we aligned on what success means?

Performance

What data do we obtain to give us insight in to our performance against our purpose and do we obtain it at the right time. When we gather data that demonstrates a need for improvement how do we respond?

Design

We must understand how we have designed our organisation - targets, policy, process, accountability - and whether we have set ourselves up for success. Are our goals achievable or do we have a risk of disconnection?

Enablement

The missing link between design and operation, and often only considered when things go wrong is enablement. What resources (human, financial or technological) are available and are they sufficient? What constraints must we understand and workwithin?

Purpose

Performance

Design

Enablement

Meet Peter & Joe

Peter brings 30 years of experience in relation to risk, crisis and issues management, assurance, governance and associated practices that are fundamental to sound decision making in a successful and resilient organisation.Peter delivers outcomes that are reflective of his experience based belief that effective risk management is vital in both protecting and enhancing business impact and value.Peter has most recently led the Enterprise Risk Function for the CSIRO, Australia’s National Science Agency. In that role he developed and enhanced CSIRO’s Risk Framework to support increased risk maturity and risk aware decision making at all levels of the organisation.In addition, Peter was responsible for business continuity, crisis and issues management and has taken a leading role in both the development of continuity and crisis frameworks and the application of those frameworks through significant crisis events.Peter is regularly invited to present at risk conferences on the challenge of effectively factoring risk into organisational decision making to both protect and enhance business value.

Peter DuffyDirector - Enterprise Risk

Joe believes that, done right, operational risk management is a powerful contributor to helping achieve organisational objectives. His approach to enabling and driving this is built on gathering an understanding of the operating environment, objectives and constraints facing an organisation and using his experience to develop and deliver plans that are both challenging and sustainable.As Director, Operational Risk, Joe helps our clients connect their resilience efforts with broader operational risk management goals. With more than 20 years experience, Joe has held senior consultancy and management roles across retail banking, financial services, energy and utilities.Joe has led significant projects in risk transformation, GRC system implementation, AML/CTF capability uplift and controls transformation. His experience has given him clear insight in to what works, and what doesn’t, when you seek to uplift risk management capabilities and behaviours.Joe’s focus is working with our APRA regulated clients, with a specific focus on CPS 230.

Joe McDavittDIRECTOR – OPERATIONAL RISK