Policy Development Software

Streamline your Policy Management program with LogicManager’s comprehensive Policy Development solution.

Why a Risk-Based Approach to Policy Development is important:

Identify your risks:

It’s critical to know what risks your organization faces before crafting your policies. This ensures that procedures are not just in place to promote company values, but that they simultaneously help keep your organization safe.

Assess the implications of those risks:

Determining the likelihood, assurance and impact of a risk can lead you to developing more effective and meaningful policies that better serve everyone at the organization.

Mitigate more effectively:

Policies mitigate your risks; but they’re only effective if you’re mitigating the right risks. With a risk-based approach, your policies will be protecting you from the root cause and prove more effective over time.

Monitor your controls:

Your risks are ever-evolving, so it’s important to make sure that your controls remain relevant and useful over time. A policy that may have protected you yesterday may not do so tomorrow.

Connect your policies:

Your IT department’s policies (i.e. password procedures, IT security policies and VPN guidelines) inevitably impact your Compliance team’s work – and these interdependencies can be drawn across nearly every department.

Report on your efforts:

Whether it’s showing evidence of employee policy attestation, or highlighting trends and patterns that contributed to your policy development, LogicManager’s robust reporting engine helps you generate proof that you’ve done your part to prevent risks from happening.

LogicManager’s Policy Development Solution

Here’s what you can expect with LogicManager’s Policy Development solution package:

In-app document editing capabilities, powered by our Office365 integration, give you the ability to keep policy documents readily available in the application. This also makes it easier to share new updates or make suggestions for new policies.
Keep an inventory of your current policies using our Taxonomy feature. This technology helps you draw key connections across your enterprise to see how policies are impacting others.
An out-of-the-box policy checklist for reviewing current policies and developing new ones. The fields on this checklist can be fully customized to fit any current processes and the unique needs of your organization.
The Policy Development workflow can fully automate your process. Once a new policy checklist has been filled out for a policy that needs to be developed, a full review and approval process can be initiated with little to no manual manipulation. Explore a number of our other automations in our robust workflow engine to help facilitate your work.
Leverage our Policy Management Report & Dashboard Catalog (or customize any report to fit your exact needs). Some common examples used for policy development include:
- Policy Field History Report: Allows you to see current and prior values for each profile field for a specific policy, so you can keep detailed records on who and when policies were updated and what changed.
- Policies Dashboard: Get a graphical, summary view of your policies.
- Overdue Task Report: Shows overdue tasks, which can be helpful in showing you where there are outstanding items on your policy development process and knowing who to follow up with.

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Automate your processes

LogicManager enables automation throughout the Policy Development process. From an online form where employees can submit new policies they think are worthwhile, to a workflow that can automate the typically manual email back and forth, fuel engagement with ease.

Stay ahead of the curve

In today’s ever changing environment, make sure your policy program is adaptable and working for you, not against you. The policy development automation helps ensure that while your organization is experiencing large numbers of employees working from home, the most necessary processes can still go on as normal. This also helps with changing regulations and requirements; if you are reviewing and revising your policies on a set frequency, you are able to provide evidence to any regulatory officer that you are doing your due diligence in making sure your policies are up to date.

Track exceptions & draw trends

LogicManager also offers out of the box solutions for policy exception logging and tracking. These exceptions can be linked back to the original policy so that the organization can be reporting out on trends or policies that have accrued a high amount of exceptions. This tracking will trigger your organization to take a deeper look at that policy to determine if it is actually fitting the current needs, or if a new policy all together needs to be put in place.

What is Policy Development?

Policies aren’t born out of thin air. They are the result of careful planning and proper development. The policy development process involves thoughtfully creating new policies, and should involve numerous areas of your organization. Whether it’s a response to a regulatory finding, an internal audit that raised some issues or just recognition of room for improvement, there will almost always be an opportunity and a need to create new policies. LogicManager helps facilitate the policy development process and enables you to establish protocols for reviewing them in the future.

Risks

If your organization does not have a clear process in place for developing new policies and updating existing ones, you’re opening yourself up to the risk of noncompliance. If employees do not know where to raise new policy ideas or where to review current policies, they are more likely to do things unknowingly that expose your organization to risks. Consider the consequences of repeat policy violations: if your employees or your organization as a whole is unable to consistently enforce internal policies, what else is it liable to?

These risks can hold both a hard dollar implication in terms of fines and fees associated with lawsuits. From a soft dollar perspective, they can negatively impact your reputation. Prospective business partners, customers, investors and other key stakeholders are going to be less likely to work with you if your business is continuously portrayed in a negative way.

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