Glossary
- BC
- business continuity
- COSO
- The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (of the Treadway Commission)
- ERP
- The acronym for Enterprise Resource Planning
- FCA
- The UK Financial Conduct Authority (responsible for the regulation of financial firms)
- FDA
- The US Food and Drug Administration
- Five Whys
- An interrogative technique where the question ‘why?’ is repeatedly asked to help identify the root of a problem or an issue
- ISO
- The International Organisztion for Standardization
- NGO
- The acronym for non-governmental organisation
- PERT
- The acronym for Programme Evaluation and Review Technique
- PESTLE
- The acronym for a management brainstorming technique (i.e. what are the Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, Environmental matters relating to an organisation?)
- RACI
- The acronym for Responsible, Accountable, Consulted and Informed communications processes
- SRA
- The acronym for Strategic Review Analysis
- SWOT
- The acronym for a management brainstorming technique (i.e. what are the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats of, or relating to, an organisation?)