What is a Beta product?
This product is in the final testing phase before we launch it to the wider market. It’s being used by early adopter clients who are helping us to make improvements and shape the future product roadmap.
IA Blueprint
BetaThe digital platform to improve the performance of your Internal Audit function, through benchmarking and more.
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The challenge
When you’re leading an Internal Audit (IA) function, you’re under a lot of pressure to perform. With senior management and the Board as your stakeholders, you and your team face a great deal of scrutiny as businesses rightly pursue operational excellence, regulatory compliance and effective risk management. Increasing regulatory attention on the role, capabilities and impact of Internal Audit only increases that drive to improve.
One of the best ways to improve performance is to understand how you and your team are performing relative to your peers, getting under the skin of what other IA teams are doing with the budget they have, and identifying key areas for development.
IA Blueprint is an online platform we're currently piloting. It is being shaped by and designed especially for Heads of Internal Audit to help you and your team progress. At its heart it allows you free access to relevant benchmarking data. This is data that you can tap into with speed, drilling down into granular detail to help you understand your areas of strength as well as opportunities to improve. Beyond this, the platform also offers you the chance to access tailored development workshops, data analytics capabilities to improve the efficiencies of your audit processes, as well as a range of helpful industry insight resources.
Features
IA Blueprint is a platform that brings together a range of tools and resources all in one place, designed to make improving your Internal Audit function an easier process.
Peer-to-peer benchmarking
Customisable benchmark reporting
External Quality Assessment tool
Internal audit analytics capabilities
Industry insights and articles
Tailored workshop support
How it works
Get started in 30 minutes
Simply log on to the online platform to complete a questionnaire that assesses your department against key benchmarking metrics. This should take no longer than 30-60 minutes to complete.
Compare your performance against your peers
Using your data, a digital benchmarking report is automatically generated at the click of a button – no need to wait around for manual reports. Use the digital format to drill into granular detail specific to your industry. See how your team is performing against a number of key benchmarks, such as budget, headcount and audit plan.
Access a range of bespoke content
In addition to peer to peer benchmarking, through the platform you will gain free access to industry relevant articles. Each week the platform will also pose one question to your peer community, from a selection of popular questions, nominated by you. The platform will become your one stop shop for the data and insight you need to have more strategic conversations with your stakeholders.
Draw down on tailored support to help you excel
Using the results from the benchmarking survey, we can create tailored workshops to help you identify key areas for development and an action plan to get you there. These workshops and additional hands on consultancy support are optional depending on the package you select.
Bolt on the right tech capabilities for you
Through IA Blueprint you get easy access to a range of technology capabilities to support your function, such as Outlier Scan, our internal audit analytics tool.
