Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence

Building Independent Audit Mechanisms for Automated Decision Algorithms

A working programme in independent algorithm auditing for managers who have to deliver with existing resources.

  • 5training days
  • 4modules
  • 8sessions
  • 32topics
Building Independent Audit Mechanisms for Automated Decision Algorithms
5days

About the programme

Course Overview

The constraint on independent algorithm auditing is rarely the model or the platform — it is the data and the operating discipline behind it. Vendors sell the digital and data-driven work capability as a product; it behaves in practice as a change programme. The level assumes working familiarity with the transformation programme but no prior formal training in the wider digital and data-driven work agenda. The programme uses small-group work so that each participant's treatment of independent algorithm auditing is examined, not just described. Participants develop a defensible line of reasoning for the choices they make about this part of digital and data-driven work. The programme converts this aspect of digital and data-driven work from an area of general awareness into a set of repeatable practices. Where independent algorithm auditing is measured, it improves; where it is only discussed, it drifts. Moving the wider digital and data-driven work agenda from written policy into daily practice is not achieved by a single decision. The closing exercise tests whether the participant's plan for the practice within digital and data-driven work survives a hostile question.

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Select indicators that show whether independent algorithm auditing is improving, and reject those that only look useful.

  • Reduce avoidable variation in how independent algorithm auditing is carried out across teams.

  • Prepare the human side of independent algorithm auditing: who is retrained, who is redeployed, and when they are told.

  • Design the integration points between independent algorithm auditing and the systems already in production.

  • Specify the data independent algorithm auditing depends on, where it originates and who is accountable for its quality.

  • Set the minimum documentation for independent algorithm auditing that is genuinely necessary, and stop there.

  • Assess whether independent algorithm auditing should be built in-house, bought, or delivered through a partner.

Who Should Attend

  • Operations managers whose processes are changed by independent algorithm auditing.

  • Internal auditors reviewing how independent algorithm auditing is designed and operated.

  • Department heads accountable for the results of independent algorithm auditing.

  • Business analysts translating requirements for independent algorithm auditing.

  • Programme managers coordinating delivery of independent algorithm auditing across teams.

  • Vendor and contract managers overseeing suppliers involved in independent algorithm auditing.

Course Modules

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01

Independent algorithm auditing: people, skills and the change that follows

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Making independent algorithm auditing secure without making it unusable

  • Build the user briefing that explains what independent algorithm auditing does and does not decide.
  • Build the internal briefing that explains independent algorithm auditing to those affected.
  • Decide which legacy process independent algorithm auditing retires, and set the date.
  • Confirm the retention and deletion rules applied to data inside independent algorithm auditing.

Session 2Choosing a supplier for independent algorithm auditing without being captured

  • Identify where judgement in independent algorithm auditing is legitimate and where it is not.
  • Anticipate the objections independent algorithm auditing will raise and prepare the answers.
  • Classify the data in independent algorithm auditing and apply access controls that match the classification.
  • Estimate compute and licensing cost for independent algorithm auditing at expected and at peak load.
02

Independent algorithm auditing: security, privacy and regulatory obligation

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The paperwork for independent algorithm auditing that is actually needed

  • Define the trigger that would require independent algorithm auditing to be redesigned.
  • Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of independent algorithm auditing current.
  • Collect evidence on the present handling of independent algorithm auditing before proposing changes.
  • Agree who is on call for independent algorithm auditing outside working hours.

Session 2Where independent algorithm auditing touches systems nobody wants to change

  • Set the metrics that will show whether independent algorithm auditing is drifting from its intended behaviour.
  • Record the reasoning behind each architectural choice in independent algorithm auditing.
  • Confirm that contractual obligations around independent algorithm auditing are understood.
  • Measure the current quality of the data feeding independent algorithm auditing before assuming it is usable.
03

Independent algorithm auditing: from pilot to production

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Escalation and decision rights in independent algorithm auditing

  • Specify the fallback path when independent algorithm auditing is unavailable.
  • Close out actions on independent algorithm auditing rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
  • Plan how independent algorithm auditing is versioned and how a bad release is rolled back.
  • Draft the minimum viable delivery roadmap for independent algorithm auditing.

Session 2The governance independent algorithm auditing needs and the governance it does not

  • Rehearse the briefing on independent algorithm auditing that would follow an incident.
  • Confirm that reporting on independent algorithm auditing reaches the people who can act.
  • Define the exit route from the supplier supporting independent algorithm auditing.
  • Define the service level independent algorithm auditing must meet and what happens when it is missed.
04

Independent algorithm auditing: governance, ethics and explainability

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Who answers for independent algorithm auditing, and to whom

  • Reduce the variation in how independent algorithm auditing is carried out between teams.
  • Identify the skills the team lacks to operate independent algorithm auditing independently.
  • Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to independent algorithm auditing.
  • Test independent algorithm auditing against edge cases drawn from real historical records.

Session 2Explaining independent algorithm auditing to people whose jobs it changes

  • Build the competence framework that supports independent algorithm auditing.
  • Estimate the resource independent algorithm auditing requires to run as designed.
  • Identify every system independent algorithm auditing must read from or write to.
  • Prepare the response for the most likely failure in independent algorithm auditing.

Choose the package that suits you

Silver Package

At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

Gold Package

At least 3 people

USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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