We had an excellent turnout at our spotlight session on 27 February 2025 on BarnOwl’s workshop module. Thank you very much to everyone who joined the Spotlight session.
The BarnOwl workshop module is a highly effective way for facilitating interactive risk management workshops. The following are some of the features of the BarnOwl workshop module:
BarnOwl Workshop Features
The BarnOwl workshop module is a highly effective way to facilitate interactive risk management workshop.
Features include:
- Configurable: configure a workshop to suit your workshop requirements.
- Import existing risks and / or identify new risks: Import your existing registers and / or capture newly identified risks, contributing factors, control and action plans.
- Online or Offline: Workshops can be conducted in online or offline mode. Offline mode eliminates reliance on network connectivity. Workshop (online or offline) results are captured in ‘moderation mode’ and do not update the live database directly.
- Keypad voting (optional): Participants can use keypads to vote interactively on risk and control ratings. Voting is anonymous. Keypads are sold/ rented out separately by a 3rd party provider, Participate (Pty) Limited.
- Graphical reporting: The workshop module includes bar charts showing the number of participants per voting selection (anonymous voting), risk heat maps, bar charts comparing workshop voting results with the risk rating in the live database etc.
- Update workshop results to BarnOwl: Following a workshop, the results can be reviewed, approved, and updated to the live BarnOwl database
Conclusion
The BarnOwl workshop module is a highly effective way for facilitating interactive risk management workshops. The workshop module enables the identification of news risks and controls, the rating of new and existing risks and controls using keypad voting and / or consensus voting. A key feature is that the BarnOwl workshop module operates in an offline environment, eliminating key reliance on network connectivity.
Useful links
Please find the presentation here
Please find the spotlight recording here
About BarnOwl:
BarnOwl is a fully integrated governance, risk management, compliance and audit software solution used by over 150 blue chip organisations. BarnOwl is a locally developed software solution and is the preferred risk management solution for the South African public sector supporting the National Treasury risk framework.
Please see www.barnowl.co.za for more information.