At Imergo, we recognise that enterprises have to plan, make decisions and operate in a climate of uncertainty and disruption.
Our work helps organisations make sense of
the risks and uncertainties that matter to them.
We passionately believe that our approach to governance and risk helps them to make better decisions, to create more value and to run more effectively.
There’s a more creative, compelling and sustainable way to support and enhance the existing methods; one that engages the heart as much as it does the head.
Our design-led approach to providing products and services helps people and their enterprises uncover insights so that they can improve and learn. We achieve positive and sustained change by connecting people…with knowledge, with ideas and with each other.
Our work is based upon three principles:
Insight
We establish the underlying nature of an area or issue as the basis for its improvement.
Ideas
We generate thoughts, ideas and concepts in response to the insights gained.
Impact
Our work has a positive and sustainable effect.
We aim to be your critical friend; balancing encouragement and support, with honest and constructive feedback. We are your coach, your independent expert and an advocate for the work and success of your organisation. For us, each client relationship is unique and we define our approach in a way that works for you.
About Imergo
We help organisations make sense of risk and make better decisions about the uncertainties that affect their business. Many approaches to managing risk are limited…
Blogs and videos
Our blogs and other media aim to engage professionals and organisations in debate about risk management. The content is written to further knowledge, share opinions…
Business process review for GDPR
A large national charity asked us to review their GDPR arrangements for a major event that they run each year. The initiative was key to…
Case studies in risk and governance
We have a wide range of experience in the field of risk and governance. Explore how we have helped clients in the case studies below.
Charity cash and financial management review
A charity asked us to review their cash and financial management arrangements. The organisation supported vulnerable adults placed in its care homes and outreach centres…
Blog Articles
The Imergo A to Z of risk
At Imergo, we often find that the language of risk can be off-putting. The following content may help those new to the area of risk…
Responding to uncertainty
If you want to manage risk, think like a weather forecaster. Thermometer or barometer? How do you manage risk? Many organisations employ the ‘thermometer approach’:…
Organisational stories – the management control you’re (probably) not using.
Stories and narratives within organisations provide many of the features of traditional management controls but they usually go unused; organisations are missing out on this…
Five signs that operational risks have crossed a threshold.
Established approaches for identifying and reporting risk do not serve organisations well when significant or disruptive developments occur that are outside the usual ways of…
The value of ‘nothing’ and the near miss.
It was a few years ago on a Tuesday afternoon in April when ‘nothing’ happened. I was working at a national charity and everything seemed…
If you want your colleagues to be more engaged about risk – use a story.
I may be the only one (but I doubt it) who has arrived for a meeting with a colleague to discuss risk and find a…
Is it time to overhaul the risk register?
Technology and thinking in business have moved on but the trusty risk register hasn’t. There are lessons that can be learnt and applied from wearable technology.
Frogs and fuel pumps – lessons in strategic risk
We are surrounded by examples, which offer an insight into how we can design our approach to identifying and responding to strategic risks.