Criteria |
Case |
Remark |
Organization selected |
Swiss financial services provider with an annual turnover of CHF 4 billion, assets of CHF 50 billion and 4000 employees |
The company is kept anonymous in order to speed up the research process by avoiding lengthy corporate review and authorization processes. It will be called “FICO” in the rest of this study. |
Internal Audit Function |
5 internal audit team members and 1 Chief Audit Executive |
All 6 members of the internal audit function were certified as Certified Scrum Masters |
Agile internal audit approach |
Internal Audit Function Scrum |
The agile framework comprised all internal audit work processes, including audit, consulting, fraud prevention, data analytics, management and support processes |
Agile Frameworks |
Scrum, Lean Management |
Implementation of Scrum in 2015, return to regular lean-scented work processes in 2018 |