CCR007
Map every control to a distinct risk function and eliminate or merge those providing identical protection.
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Regulations
Control Redundancy vs Process Efficiency
Business ContextOrganizations frequently introduce overlapping controls to provide additional protection against significant risks. Over time, multiple approvals, reconciliations, reviews, and monitoring activities may perform essentially the same function, increasing workload without materially improving protection.
Audit TRIZ ResolutionMap each control to its risk-management function and remove duplication where independent protection is not necessary. Where redundancy is justified by critical risk, controls should provide genuinely different protection rather than repeat identical procedures.
Applicable TRIZ Principles
Principle 2 – Taking Out eliminates controls that duplicate existing risk protection.
Principle 5 – Merging combines overlapping control activities where one mechanism can perform several functions.
Principle 6 – Universality designs controls capable of addressing multiple related requirements.
Expected Outcome
Reduced control duplication
Faster processes
Lower control cost
Preserved risk protection
Decision Indicators
Several controls verify the same transaction attribute.
New controls are added without reviewing existing protection.
Employees perform multiple similar approvals or reconciliations.
Removing any individual control appears to have little effect on residual risk.
Control inventories grow continuously despite stable risk exposure.