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Self-assessment tools for board success
  • Is your board set up for success?
  • Is your board at risk?
  • What are the barriers to its effectiveness?
  • Can you afford to not know?
Boards of Directors are a pivotal success factor for companies of all sizes, public and private. Yet, in too many cases, boards have failed to fulfill their responsibilities and sustain the trust of the marketplace. Fueling the unrest is the fact that there has been little, if any, accountability. Directors need to know how effective their board and committees are. And, directors need to know whether there is anything they can do to be more effective as a board. The risk faced by boards for failed governance – for ignoring best practices - is very real.

The Board Institute provides risk management products to help you understand how your board can be more effective. Instead of attempting to measure your board in terms of compliance benchmarks that ignore the inner workings of the board, we focus on helping you affect the areas that you can control now. Our director-driven, web-based surveys and analysis help validate good boards, highlight your strengths, reveal the barriers to effective governance, and provide information about the best practices that will help you overcome them.

“A Look in the Mirror”
  What occurs in the board room behind closed doors determines the effectiveness of your board. Our Index products provide your board with a critical look in the mirror to assist you in the ongoing process of self-improvement.

The process is anonymous and the results are confidential, thus providing an environment for honesty and candor. Our system provides all of the tools to collect, analyze and report your board's self evaluation. All your board members have to do is take 15 minutes to answer a questionaire. We'll do the rest...
 

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Web-based, board driven, secure and confidential evaluation systems, including:

The Board Index™
The centerpiece of the suite, this product helps public and private companies assess and enhance the overall effectiveness of their boards by focusing on the structure and composition, the role of the directors and the leadership of the board. Questions, analysis and best practices were developed in cooperation with leading experts in corporate governance - directors, CEO’s and financial, legal, governance, 360 feedback, and survey research experts. more...

The Audit Committee Index™
This product helps companies assess and enhance the effectiveness of their audit committees by focusing on the structure and composition, role of the audit committee members, and the role of this critical committee. Questions, analysis and best practices were developed in partnership with FERF, the research foundation for Financial Executives International (FEI), the leading organization of financial executives and those who support them as well as numerous other experts in the field. more...

The Compensation Committee Index™
This product helps companies assess and enhance the effectiveness of their compensation committees by focusing on the structure and composition, the role of the committee members, and the role of this critical committee as it relates to the full board. Questions, analysis and best practices were developed in partnership with WorldatWork, the leading organization of compensation executives and those who serve them as well as numerous other experts in the field. more...

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