We soon began to apply a simple litmus test. We explored regulatory requirements of many agencies and we asked ourselves what underlying business rule was being mandated by the respective agencies. We then explored whether the business rule was common to other regulatory requirements of other agencies governing other business functions. If the underlying business requirement resulted in a redundant business process, we set out to develop a single system capable of complying with each of agency mandates. The result, to date, is over fifty integrated business processes.

Risk Imperatives: Active Agenda utilizes a business process invention we like to call risk imperatives. Risk imperatives make cross-functional operational risk management possible. Almost every module within Active Agenda allows users to associate risk imperatives (employee safety, product quality, operational efficiency, labor relations, etc.) with every record. This approach allows organizations to use one system to manage cross-functional risks and generate views of the data geared towards a relevant audience (functional department leaders, specific regulatory agencies, etc.).

Risk imperatives can be used “as-is,” or modified to reflect an organization's strategic business imperatives. Risk imperatives also allow organizations to generate “score-cards” which reflect the degree to which an organization balances its risk management efforts. For example, Active Agenda can generate a “radar” chart displaying the number of hazards reported by risk imperative. The mere absence of data on a radar chart can reflect an under utilized business process.

Form and Report Generation: Active Agenda can automatically generate many regulatory required reports and forms for submission to agencies. In fact, Active Agenda's data export capabilities allow organizations to produce lists of data or record reports in a comma delimited, XML, or spreadsheet format. Active Agenda can automatically attached a data file to a notification and submit it to agencies, partners, or carriers for quick download and use by the recipient.

Regulations: Active Agenda allows organizations to track every regulation impacting the company and provide detailed descriptions of how the regulation impacts the operation. This feature can be quite helpful as staff compliance resources “turn-over” and incumbents inherent the compliance tasks of the business. The regulations module can be used to communicate compliance responsibilities across a global enterprise and make local operators more cognizant of their responsibilities and compliance status'.

Notifications: The notifications feature of Active Agenda allows organizations to share risk control activities, events, and reports across an enterprise. The notifications feature requires an organization to establish notification lists pre-incident notification lists that are available when they're needed. Notifications can be sent to one or more people on the pre-established lists and every notification can be saved and attached to the respective record. Complying with agency notification requirements has never been easier.

Partnerships: The partnerships module tracks the establishment of company policies and the “partnerships” formed to comply with those policies. The partnerships module allows companies to track policies, compliance partnerships, and share compliance documents in an open and collaborative environment. The partnerships module can also associate local and shared expectations which can be audited and scored against plan. This is a great International Standards Organization (ISO) compliance tool.