01 · Capability group
Governance & Operating Model
- The problem
- Accountability is described in a document rather than encoded anywhere. When a decision needs making, it is unclear who holds the authority, and when it is made, there is no durable record.
- What SecureGRC does
- SecureGRC holds the governance operating model as live structure — organisational hierarchy, governance committees and their membership, authorities and responsibilities mapped to roles, and delegation of authority including time-bound temporary delegation.
- What you get
- Every governance body, mandate and delegated authority is on the record, so decisions have traceable ownership and continuity survives absence and reorganisation.
Example workflow
A committee meets on schedule with a published agenda. Attendance is recorded, decisions are logged against the issues they resolve, and action items are assigned with due dates and tracked to closure in the action tracker.
In the platform
10- Organisational structure and org chart with reporting diagnostics
- Governance teams, committees and membership
- Authorities and responsibilities mapped to roles
- Delegation of authority: structural, temporary, delegation rules, exception tracker, approval history
- Strategic objectives and linked initiatives
- Governance meetings with agendas, attendance and notifications
- Meeting action tracker
- Governance issues and formal decisions register
- Governance operating model configuration
- Legal entity register


