MoR Foundation case studies
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The MoR Foundation certificate (also written M o R Foundation, or Management of Risk Foundation) is an entry-level qualification in the Management of Risk guidance, a framework for identifying, assessing and controlling risk across an organisation's strategic, programme, project and operational activity. It suits project and programme managers, risk managers and risk owners, business change staff, PMO analysts, assurance and audit people, and anyone who needs a shared vocabulary for risk rather than deep quantitative modelling. The MoR Foundation case studies are 5 cases and about 4,227 words.
1The register that never changes
A water utility is 14 months into a 22-month, £9.2m programme to replace its 20-year-old customer billing platform. The risk register holds 74 risks.
883 words, about 4 min2Everyone's risk, no one's owner
A UK retail bank is nine months into a payments platform replacement. One risk - failure to produce complete regulatory reporting evidence for the new platform - is recorded as owned by the Head of Change, who has delegated all risk activity to a PMO analyst.
871 words, about 4 min3Three boards, three truths
A defence engineering firm is refitting a naval vessel under a fixed-price contract. A sole-source supplier of specialist castings has had two quality failures in 18 months.
811 words, about 4 min4The compliance spreadsheet
A 400-person international development charity manages risk through a single Excel register owned by the finance director. It is updated once a year, three weeks before the audit committee, by emailing programme managers.
821 words, about 4 min5Embedded on paper
A 1,200-person construction consultancy merged two firms 18 months ago. Two risk processes still run in parallel: one uses a five-step process and a risk register per project; the other uses a 'risk log' reviewed at monthly commercial meetings.
841 words, about 4 min