BOKRIM's objectives
BOKRIM’s primary objective is to enable organizations to protect minors and vulnerable adults well.
Additional objectives are that organizations should be able to demonstrate to others that they are protecting minors and vulnerable adults well, that organizations can minimize the total cost of their SAM risk, and that the practice of SAM risk management is constantly improved.
The BOKRIM platform is composed of five elements that combine to achieve these objectives.
All effective systems have frameworks.
The BOKRIM SAM risk management framework provides a SAM risk manager with an easy-to-follow road map to a comprehensive SAM risk management system that is based on risk management best practice – ERM. It provides a SAM risk manager with all their possible options for managing SAM risk. It also ensures consistent measurement.
Once a risk manager knows what their choices are, they need to make well-informed decisions between their choices.
The BOK is the curated sum of anonymized data collected in the assessment and the application, expert opinion, and the peer and expert conversations from the Risk Café.
A risk manager’s decisions need to be practical and consistently applied.
The BOKRIM Café connects SAM risk managers with other SAM risk managers and with experts who, between them, enable SAM risk managers to connect with the practical expertise and experience they need to turn BOKRIM’s analysis into practical processes and practices.
A table, booth, or private room at the Café can also connect SAM risk managers with the others inside their organizations who support SAM risk management. They can store the common documents and FAQs used across the organization. They can also provide a home for the risk management deliberations and decisions that is synchronized with the data, experience, and expertise that inform those deliberations and decisions.
Decisions and their consequences need to be monitored.
The assessment/application connects a SAM risk manager with their organization, the framework, and the BOK.
The assessment/application collects the data for analysis, returns the analysis in a practical format, records an organization’s SAM risk management posture, and so enables the measurement of SAM risk and its management.
Good risk management needs to be signaled, so it can be rewarded.
A rating signals the risk management posture recorded by the assessment, with scores applied based on expert opinion and peer comparisons.
How they work together
The framework provides a SAM risk manager with a road map to a comprehensive SAM risk management system. Because it is a framework, it is flexible enough so every organization can develop a comprehensive SAM risk management system, at the same time ensuring activity and performance data are collected consistently.
The assessment provides a SAM risk manager with information on all the SAM risk management practices they could choose from and all the different ways they could apply their choices.
The BOKRIM Café provides a SAM risk manager with access to the practical experience and expertise they need to make well-informed decisions between their choices.
The assessment confidentially records the decisions risk managers make.
The Café can help ensure activities and documentation are coordinated and consistent within organizations managing SAM risk.
The assessment results are analyzed to calculate a rating, which signals an organization’s posture based on expert opinion and compared to peers.
The assessment results are also combined with additional information, notably from the BOKRIM Café, curated and added to the BOK.
Constantly developing and refining the BOK leads to the constant development and refining of the framework, expansion of the assessment, and ever-greater rating accuracy.
The sum of the activity leads to:
- measurement of SAM risk and its management, which leads to
- identifying the most effective practices for protecting minors and vulnerable adults, which leads to
- knowing which practices are most effective at protecting minors and vulnerable adults, which leads to
- risk managers being able to make well-informed decisions, which leads to
- risk managers being confident in their SAM risk management, and
- objective signaling (a rating) leads to stakeholders being able to trust that SAM risk is being well-managed and that minors and vulnerable adults are as safe as possible.