{"id":272,"date":"2020-07-13T10:35:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T09:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/?p=272"},"modified":"2020-07-16T11:19:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T10:19:15","slug":"rest-assured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/2020\/07\/rest-assured\/","title":{"rendered":"Rest, assured"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Author Amit Kalantri tells us that \u201cnothing consoles and\ncomforts like certainty does.\u201d This applies to business as much as it does in\nour personal lives. Knowing gives you the confidence to push forward. Not\nknowing means you can spend forever second-guessing your actions, relying on\nhope and instinct more than facts and data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does this have to do with us? The answer: Assurance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Assurance can take many forms, but the reasoning is the\nsame; to provide an independent check on a businesses\u2019 controls and processes\nto make sure they are operating efficiently and are compliant with legal and\ncontractual obligations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Benton, senior consultant at i3Works, is one of our accredited assurers. He is currently providing assurance services to Innovate UK<\/a> and has worked previously with the London Borough of Redbridge and Rail Safety Standard Board. Mark believes that assurance is often misunderstood and, as a result, not always well received<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not about point scoring or finding faults,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re not in the business of setting people up to fail – assurance is about working with an organisation, not against them. As an assurer, you must be prepared to challenge, but for the right reasons. The key is to encourage sharing of problems so that you can suggest ways to improve and avoid them in the future. By providing independent checks and verification, an assurance expert makes sure you have everything prepared for when people with the real powers get involved, such as during risk assessments and finance audits.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

i3Works\u2019 Director Terry O\u2019Dowd is an Infrastructure and Projects Authority high-risk reviewer, recently providing a team leader assurance review for a \u00a3350million Highways England improvement scheme in the North East. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAssurance is essentially about providing an independent\npeer review. It is far better to capture and address problems early than to\nhave to deal with expensive change or risk the possibility that benefits will\nsimply not be realised.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have unrivalled experience across i3Works. We know what\nwe\u2019re looking for, and if we find areas that don\u2019t meet requirements or align\nwith the business case, we can work with our clients to help them. When we\u2019ve\nfinished, you can be assured that the next review, inspection or audit will be\nsuccessful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here to see how our assurance services can help you<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author Amit Kalantri tells us that \u201cnothing consoles and comforts like certainty does.\u201d This applies to business as much as it does in our personal lives. Knowing gives you the confidence to push forward. Not knowing means you can spend forever second-guessing your actions, relying on hope and instinct more than facts and data. What […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}