Conceptual Foundations of a TOM for an ICU
Tuesday, 19 June 2012 | 
John A Morrison
Conceptual Foundations of a TOM (Target Operating Model) for an ICU (Internal Capital Unit)
The ICU is that applicable, particularly in Pillar 2 of Basel II, Basel III or Solvency II; development of a TOM is no easy task but is fundamental to the success of technology and process or competence change when implementing an ICU successfully. Clear demonstration of an effective and operational ICU is fundamental to financial institution supervision today. Development of a TOM needs a great deal of thinking and we at asymptotix have done some of that over the years. The foundations of our thinking about ICU-TOM is the SAP B2P2 white paper, vintage 2006 here but the clear development of our thinking is the peer-group validated, challenged and socialised approach to development of a TOM for an ICU is given in John Morrison's consolidated presentation of thinking in this space for the academic conference circuit of 2009 / 2010 and it is here Below in 5 brief pictures we present a summary of these ideas underlying a TOM-ICU; this is just a beginning, a conceptual foundation but presents some elements for consideration which are 'sine qua non';-
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