Corporate Governance @ToGovern

The definitive source for Boardrooms & C-suites on corporate governance, AI, leadership, strategy, quality, value and sustainability. Informed insight. ToGovern.co Boardroom, London Joined July 2010

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Corporate Governance @ToGovern

12 hours ago

Directors often speak of "the NHS board" as one thing. Our clients mostly fall into three forms: NHS trust, foundation trust and clinical commissioning group. Governance architecture is read well only against the form a board serves.

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a day ago

A board that governs clinical care and AI well starts with five convictions, in a deliberate order. It owns its information basis first. Artificial intelligence for safety becomes a realistic prospect only once the other four hold.

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Corporate Governance @ToGovern

a day ago

Good governance rests on foundations a board deliberately builds. It cannot assume them because its members are capable. Charlie Helps co-authored Foundations of Good Governance: A Compendium of Best Practice (NHS Providers, 2015).

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Corporate Governance @ToGovern

a day ago

Every economy that has boards has a word for governance: gouvernance, gobernanza, bolagsstyrning, 公司治理, utawala. Boards in very different jurisdictions are working on recognisably the same problem.

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Massimo @Rainmaker1973

3 days ago

This 1952 New York Stock Exchange cartoon explains how the stock market works. [full video, New York Stock Exchange, 1952]

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Corporate Governance @ToGovern

2 days ago

Commissioning external advice is a governance decision in its own right. The proposal, the specification and the pricing basis each shape what the board can later hold the work to. All three should exist in writing before the work starts.

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Corporate Governance @ToGovern

3 days ago

AI governance developments do not all ask the same thing of a board. Strategy sets direction, a standard guides conduct, sector guidance addresses one field's risks. Each reaches the board differently, so each needs its own scrutiny.

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Corporate Governance @ToGovern

3 days ago

When a trust board considers automating its administration, the first useful question concerns its own reading. If automation returns time, where will it go, and which section of the pack do directors read without challenge?

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Corporate Governance @ToGovern

4 days ago

Integrated reporting has a name in many languages: rapport intégré, integrierte Berichterstattung, informe integrado, 統合報告. In each, it asks a board the same question: how does the organisation create value over time?

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Corporate Governance @ToGovern

5 days ago

When a figure, forecast or assurance is about to pass into the board's settled understanding, any director can ask: "Before we treat this as known: how strongly may we rely on it, what remains uncertain, and whose authority supports it?"

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Corporate Governance @ToGovern

5 days ago

Many boards carry a quiet assumption: if information has reached the board pack through the proper channel, it can be relied on. The more useful question is on what basis the Board may rely on it. That basis must be visible.

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Corporate Governance @ToGovern

5 days ago

For a board paper that opens with its recommendation, one line a director can say: "Before we discuss the recommendation, can we separate what the source says, what has been interpreted, what is assumed, and what is ours to judge?"

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Corporate Governance @ToGovern

5 days ago

Governance that only confirms compliance tells a board what has already happened. Purposeful governance asks what the board's oversight is for, and holds every decision to that answer. Could directors state that answer clearly?

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Corporate Governance @ToGovern

6 days ago

Assurance is confidence, and confidence on its own is incomplete. It must be tested against the people behind the figures. In healthcare governance, those people are patients. A board's assurance is only as sound as that connection.

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Corporate Governance @ToGovern

a week ago

When management brings a new AI system to the board for approval, we ask first: "Which risk level has this system been placed in, and who signed off that classification?" An unowned classification leaves fiduciary accountability exposed.

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Corporate Governance @ToGovern

a week ago

An organisation’s repeated actions leave impressions in its practices, expectations, controls, and judgements. Those impressions influence future action until deliberate reflection interrupts the cycle. #CorpGov #Karma

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Corporate Governance @ToGovern

a week ago

Most development effort begins with what a team lacks. Strengths-based coaching begins with what a team already does well. Teams that focus on their strengths are 12.5% more productive. For boards, this is a question of leadership design.

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Corporate Governance @ToGovern

a week ago

Each language has found its own word for due diligence, from Sorgfaltsprüfung to uji tuntas. Beneath different governance traditions sits one shared standard of care. We conduct due diligence for mergers and acquisitions within that duty.

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Corporate Governance @ToGovern

a week ago

Directors know reputational damage when they see it. Fewer boards separate the three duties it places on them: guard against what can be prevented, accept that some damage cannot be avoided, and repair it swiftly. #CorpGov

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Corporate Governance @ToGovern

2 weeks ago

Directors who commission governance, risk or strategy advice may question how it is scoped, evidenced and used. The seven sentences in this image can be said to any adviser. The advice serves the board's own fiduciary accountability.