Integrated GRC for Corporates: Three Lines Model, Combined Assurance & GRC Technology Training Course

Course Overview

Learning Objectives

• Explain why governance, risk, compliance, and assurance activities fragment in growing companies and what integration achieves.
• Assess the GRC maturity of an organization against a practical maturity model.
• Apply the Three Lines Model to define the roles of the governing body, management, and internal audit.
• Align risk appetite, risk assessment, and compliance obligations within a common framework.
• Build a shared risk and control library and common taxonomies used across functions.
• Coordinate risk and control self-assessment, compliance monitoring, and control testing to reduce duplication.
• Design a combined assurance map that shows who provides assurance over each key risk.
• Use key risk indicators and integrated reporting to give the board one consistent view.
• Define business requirements and data structures for GRC technology.
• Compare spreadsheet, modular, and integrated platform options for GRC technology.
• Plan a staged GRC technology implementation with clear ownership and adoption measures.
• Address the culture, incentives, and communication that integrated GRC needs to work.
• Prepare an integration roadmap with priorities, responsibilities, and milestones.

Who Should Attend

Learning Outcomes

• By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
• Explain how integrated GRC differs from separate risk, compliance, and audit activities.
• Assess the GRC maturity of their organizations and identify priority gaps.
• Apply the Three Lines Model to assign clear roles and escalation routes.
• Link risk appetite, risk assessment, and compliance obligations within one framework.
• Design common taxonomies and a shared risk and control library.
• Combine self-assessment, compliance monitoring, and control testing into one cycle.
• Build a combined assurance map that shows coverage, gaps, and overlaps.
• Prepare integrated GRC reports for management, the audit committee, and the board.
• Define business requirements for GRC technology.
• Select a suitable GRC technology approach and plan its staged implementation.
• Identify the cultural and organizational conditions that integrated GRC requires.
• Develop a GRC integration roadmap with priorities and responsibilities.

Course Outline