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Introduction
How to use
Foreword
Executive summary
SIGMA Principles
Management Framework
Introducing the tables
Four key phases
Leadership & vision
Planning
Delivery
Monitor, review & report
Monitoring & feedback
Tactical review
Reporting progress
Assurance of reporting
Views on the Guidelines

  Monitor, Review and Report  
diagram of Monitor, Review and Reporting phase Check that performance is improving and communicate the results
 Phase  Activity

MRR1

Monitoring,
measurement, auditing
and feedback

  • Training for, planning and executing the organisation’s internal audit / verification programmes.
  • Communicating audit / verification findings and recommendations to relevant internal and external stakeholders, including those responsible for conducting the strategic and tactical review process.
  • Taking preventive, corrective and innovative actions as appropriate.
  • Consulting with stakeholders on performance and future challenges.

    MRR2

    Tactical and
    strategic review

  • Reviewing strategies and tactical plans to assess their effectiveness and ability to deliver against the organisation’s vision and targets for sustainable development.
  • Reviewing audit / verification findings and recommendations.
  • Assessing any changes in stakeholder priorities and their implications for the organisation’s vision, activities, targets, processes, products and services.
  • Making recommendations to the next round of the organisation’s Strategic and Tactical Planning processes.
  • Making immediate amendments to Strategic and Tactical Plans to take account of changing circumstances and priorities (as appropriate).
  • Communicating the findings and recommendations from reviews to all relevant personnel.

    MRR3

    Reporting progress

  • Collecting information and data, agreeing the scope, media, audiences and levels of disclosure for reporting, distributing the reports through a range of communications channels.
  • Establishing or reinforcing mechanisms for handling and responding to stakeholder feedback on reports.

    MRR4

    Assurance of
    reporting

  • Putting in place internal assurance and verification processes for reporting and undertaking an internal assurance / verification programme.
  • Agreeing the need for, scope and objectives of, and service providers to deliver, assurance and verification of reporting.
  • Working with external assurance / verification providers to achieve production of a favourable assurance / verification statement.
     

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