Overview The Internal audit function is increasingly regarded as a business partner, a catalyst for change and a Governance advisor. You therefore need your internal audit function to adopt world class techniques and become a trusted advisor and internal consultant. This is particularly true in the Middle East [...]
Overview Global lockdown has caught most companies and most Assistants highly unprepared for remote work. How can Assistants make their role indispensable and their careers bulletproof? Which technology is the best for virtual offices and remote work? How to choose your next learning step with so much material [...]
Some of the Learning Outcomes Learn more about group sequential methods Understand where DMCs are useful/not useful Take a closer look on how do DMC meetings run Understand legal position/indemnity CHMP, FDA (and other) guidance documents Stopping ‘rules’, including Haybittle and Peto, Pocock, O’Brien and Fleming, alpha-spending approaches, [...]
Overview The ultimate aim of all businesses is to achieve their overall Strategic Goals. However, it is widely accepted that around 70% of organisations fail to achieve their Goals – in other words, they fail to implement their chosen strategy successfully. There are many underlying reasons: but one [...]
Overview A CFO’s mastery of the financial skill is a given; however, such a skill alone is not enough to become a successful corporate leader in these turbulent and uncertain times. The finance function is a core component of the operational structure. It serves as a guardian of [...]
Overview Climate change is increasingly on the agenda as a material risk, not just for the long-term but as a current issue. Global climate science continues to highlight observable changes in the climate, with increasing evidence of physical effects and accelerating impacts of the effort to transition to [...]
Overview Stress testing has become an important tool for risk management and a key part of the regulatory framework. This course discusses various approaches to generating stress scenarios, simple ‘what-if’ scenarios and simulation techniques through to the use of full structural macroeconomic models of the global economy. It [...]
Overview Recent advances in human error management based on alertness creation dovetail seamlessly with holistic and coordinated approaches to risk management. This two day course covers the recent advances in understanding why people make physical and cognitive mistakes and what pro-active and proportionate steps can be taken to [...]
Why should you attend? Writing effective audit reports must be the most important aspect of the Internal Audit process. It is the main deliverable and the way your whole audit is judged. Why then does this often seem to be such a difficult process? Is it because [...]
Overview Twenty-five years ago, software did not feature significantly in medical device legislation. Thirteen years ago it was added as a serious afterthought. As Europe moves to the new Medical Device Regulations, software is recognised throughout the General Safety and Performance Requirements. It has its own rules in [...]
