CH600320 - The One to Many Approach: approval: the process for gaining approval

The process in Customer Compliance Group (CCG) for gaining approval for an OTM approach differs depending on your directorate. However, in general, each approach must consider the following:

• Your proposal must be agreed within your Directorate. This will usually come from a Deputy Director. Your line of business OTM SPOC will advise you of the process to follow. This is to ensure that it fits with the Directorate’s own strategy and does not clash with other activity elsewhere in the directorate.
• Following directorate approval to move forward you must log your proposed activity or idea on the central database using the registration form.
• Commence scoping the idea and provide an update if your idea is being taken forward.

The level of governance needed will depend on the type of activity. There are three different levels:

• Lite assurance
• Partial Assurance
• Full assurance

The pathways model can help you decide which route you need to follow for your activity.

It is important to note that the OTM Assurance Group may request to see your idea at any point and this could change the assurance level required for your activity.

For more information on the assurance process please see the CCG OTM Assurance intranet pages.