Business Objectives Software
Business Objectives Software Aligned with ISO 31000 Risk Management - Enhanced by an Optional AI-Powered Assistant
Symbiant’s Business Objectives Software, based on ISO 31000, links your strategic goals with risks and risk appetite for smarter, aligned decision-making. Fully integrated with the Risk Register and other GRC modules, it streamlines processes through automation, notifications, and customisable workflows, all tailored to your organisation.
From only £100 per module/month for unlimited users*
ALIGNED, CONNECTED, STRATEGIC
Define, Track, and Align Strategic Goals Across Your Organisation with Symbiant's Business Objectives Software
Connected Solution
Connected to various other Modules to enhance the Objectives oversight and data reporting capabilities.
Create a bespoke holistic view of Objectives.
Fully Customisable to Fit You
Real-Time Tracking & Automated Updates
Track actions, deadlines, and plan status in real time. Automated alerts and reminders ensure no step is missed, keeping your continuity strategy active, visible, and always up to date.
DESIGNED FOR ALIGNMENT, BUILT FOR STRATEGY
Business Objectives Software to Align Goals, Reduce Risk, and Drive Accountability
Symbiant’s Objectives Module helps you define and enforce strategic alignment across departments. From assigning actions to tracking updates and collaborating in real time, it keeps your objectives clear, connected, and always moving forward.
STRATEGIC GOVERNANCE
Define Objective-Level Risk Appetites and Enforce Alignment Across Risks
Define specific risk appetites for each business objective. By linking risks directly to your goals, you can instantly identify outliers that exceed your tolerance and take proactive action to prevent failure.
OWNERSHIP & SECURITY
Delegate Objective Actions and Lock Accountability
Assign objective-related actions to specific users with a tamper-proof design, so responsibilities stay clear and updates can’t be reassigned or altered without permission.
AUTOMATED WORKFLOWS
Stay Informed with Real-Time Objective Updates
Automated emails and reminders keep everyone in the loop, no more chasing updates or worrying about forgotten tasks. Objectives stay on track, always.
TEAM COLLABORATION
Work Together Across Objectives, Tasks, and Actions
Enable multiple users to contribute in real time, from updating information to completing tasks — for faster progress and shared responsibility.
SYSTEM INTEGRATION
Connect Objectives Across Modules for a Fully Integrated GRC Framework
AI-Enhanced Governance with Human Control at Its Core
Smarter Governance Starts with AI-Supported Precision
Symbiant’s optional AI Assistant helps you govern with greater confidence, suggesting improvements, refining documentation, and linking key data across objectives, risks, continuity plans, and more. You stay in control, while AI handles the legwork.
Starting from just £100/month
Unlimited users. Unlimited requests.
Symbiant’s AI functionality enhances your BCP module by helping you:
- Identify and create probable event scenarios
- Identify which business areas and functions could be affected
- Identify potential root causes
- Predict affected customer journey elements
- Identify and create new potential risks
- Identify and create suitable mitigations and controls
- Improve recover through automation
Governance becomes more strategic with AI support for:
- Suggesting new, relevant business objectives tailored to your operations
- Linking objectives to existing risks for stronger alignment and visibility
- Identifying new potential risks associated with your objectives
- Improving strategic planning and risk awareness across departments
Symbiant’s Document Management Software benefits from intelligent features built into the wider platform
- Automatically rewrite content into a more professional and consistent tone
- Suggest links between documents, related risks, business objectives, and controls
- Improve clarity, compliance, and traceability across all your governance documentation
These AI-enhanced functions support cleaner records, faster audits, and stronger alignment between your documents and your wider GRC strategy.
Due Diligence Software with Intelligent Insight
Symbiant’s Due Diligence Module streamlines third-party assessments, onboarding checks, and internal reviews, while benefiting from AI functionality across your wider system.
- Automatically flag related risks and compliance gaps using connected module data
- Rewrite submissions and responses for clarity, consistency, and professionalism
- Suggest relevant controls, audits, or actions to support evidence-based decision-making
- Maintain a clear audit trail for all due diligence activity, ensuring transparency and accountability
Fully integrated with your GRC ecosystem, the Due Diligence Module helps you assess, document, and manage risk with confidence.
Ensure Privacy and Security
Symbiant’s AI-Powered Assistant is fully GDPR-compliant and built to protect your privacy. It does not collect or store your data. Instead, it creates a temporary cache folder to fulfil each query and immediately deletes the information once the task is complete.
Your data always stays securely within your environment, giving you full control and peace of mind while benefiting from AI assisted insights.
Take Control of Your Strategic Objectives
Define, Monitor, and Action Your Business Objectives — All in One Place
Reviews, Actions, and Automated Communication
The Reviews and Actions tab lets you log key updates and assign tasks to specific users.
Actions are tracked through to completion, with each task tied to a responsible owner.
Automated email notices notify users of their assignments, and reminders are sent if deadlines are missed. Assignees can add progress updates, attach files, and once completed, mark the action as implemented, automatically notifying all parties involved.
Managing Objectives and Monitoring Risk
With Symbiant’s Business Objectives Software Module, you can manage your objectives effectively and efficiently.
You can set an Objective Appetite to define the acceptable level of risks for each objective. The module highlights any risks that exceed this appetite, so you can take action early and avoid objective failure.
You can also monitor the impact of risks on your objectives in real time, identifying where controls are weak or underperforming.
Business Objectives can be linked to various modules within your system. The most commonly used modules include:
However, you can connect objectives to any module you choose, giving you a bespoke, fully integrated solution. This setup allows you to view all related modules in one place and output comprehensive reports covering linked risks, controls, and assessments.
SYMBIANT GOVERNANCE SOFTWARE
Explore the Full Governance Management Suite
Explore the full Symbiant suite, powerful, fully integrated modules that extend your Audit Management capabilities across governance, compliance, audit, and beyond. Everything you need to protect your organisation, stay aligned, and work smarter.
Your complete solution starts from just £300/month*.
ISO 31000–Aligned Governance Framework
Business Goals and Objectives Software
Align organisational objectives with risk, define appetite thresholds, and strengthen governance oversight through ISO 31000-aligned structure and intelligent automation.
Objective-based risk management ensures that risks are assessed in the context of strategic goals.
Rather than asking:
“What are our risks?”
You ask:
“What could prevent us from achieving our objectives?”
The Symbiant Business Objectives Module enables you to:
Identify and track strategic and operational objectives
Link objectives directly to risks within your Risk Registers
Define appetite thresholds for each objective
Monitor exposure in real time
Trigger automated alerts when risk exceeds tolerance
Create reviews and remedial action plans
This creates clear accountability and measurable governance across the organisation.
ISO 31000 emphasises that risk management must be integrated, structured, and aligned with organisational objectives.
The Business Objectives Module supports this by enabling you to:
Establish organisational context through defined objectives
Link risks to strategic outcomes
Define acceptable levels of uncertainty (risk appetite)
Monitor performance and exposure continuously
Review and respond when exposure changes
When risk exceeds defined appetite thresholds, automated notifications are dispatched to objective owners, ensuring prompt awareness and action.
This transforms risk management from a reporting exercise into a live governance mechanism.
Risk appetite is often discussed but rarely operationalised.
With Symbiant, you can define appetite thresholds for each objective and ensure linked risks remain within acceptable limits.
If associated risk exposure exceeds the defined tolerance:
Objective owners are automatically notified
Reviews can be initiated
Remedial action plans can be created and tracked
This enables proactive governance rather than retrospective reporting.
You move from static documentation to continuous oversight.
The Business Objectives Module does not operate in isolation. It forms part of a wider connected governance framework.
It links directly with:
This allows you to:
See how risks threaten objectives
Understand how controls mitigate exposure
Consider incidents that may impact strategic goals
Use assessments to test effectiveness
Maintain supporting documentation in one central location
Information is entered once and used across the system, creating a Single Source of Truth.
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Symbiant’s flexible, modular platform streamlines governance, risk, compliance, and audit—so you can reduce complexity, adapt fast, and stay focused on achieving your objectives.
Our Solution at a Glance:
Risk Management Software
The Symbiant Risk Management Software module enables organisations to identify, understand, and manage risks with ease and efficiency. It provides a streamlined approach to monitoring, assessing, and mitigating risks, ensuring informed decisions and compliance.
AI-Powered Assistant
Symbiant AI connects data across your organisation, delivering actionable insights and seamless workflows. From logical, data-driven risk scoring to uncovering root causes and predicting the domino effect of control failures, Symbiant AI empowers smarter, faster decisions. Eliminate duplicate risks in seconds, refine controls, identify emerging risks, and so much more—all tailored to your business.
Audit Management Software
The Symbiant Audit Management Software module streamlines audit planning, action tracking, and time management. It automatically pulls relevant data, allows easy report customisation, and generates professional audit reports.
Risk Management Software
The Symbiant Risk Management Software module enables organisations to identify, understand, and manage risks with ease and efficiency. It provides a streamlined approach to monitoring, assessing, and mitigating risks, ensuring informed decisions and compliance.
AI-Powered Assistant
Symbiant AI connects data across your organisation, delivering actionable insights and seamless workflows. From logical, data-driven risk scoring to uncovering root causes and predicting the domino effect of control failures, Symbiant AI empowers smarter, faster decisions. Eliminate duplicate risks in seconds, refine controls, identify emerging risks, and so much more—all tailored to your business.
Audit Management Software
The Symbiant Audit Management Software module streamlines audit planning, action tracking, and time management. It automatically pulls relevant data, allows easy report customisation, and generates professional audit reports.
Objective-Centric ERM
Symbiant Objective-Centric Enterprise Risk Management Software
Traditional ERM focuses on listing risks, but without clear connection to business objectives, those risks have little meaning. Symbiant transforms this approach by making objectives the foundation of risk management.
With Symbiant Business Objectives Module, every risk is linked to the objectives it could impact, ensuring decisions are made with full strategic context. Risk appetites can be defined for each objective, and when a threshold is exceeded, automated alerts notify owners to review and respond.
Linked modules such as Risk Registers, Controls and Policies, and Incident Reporter ensure that all risks, mitigations, and events are aligned with performance goals. This creates a complete, dynamic view of organisational resilience, one where risk management directly supports strategy rather than simply recording it.
Built around ISO 31000 principles, Symbiant helps you move beyond static reporting to a proactive, strategic ERM framework that truly supports achieving organisational objectives.
Your questions answered
Common Questions About Symbiant’s Business Goals and Objectives Software Module
Explore answers to the most asked questions about Symbiant’s GRC and Audit Management software with an optional AI-Assistant, from features and benefits to pricing and integration.
What is the Symbiant Business Objectives Software Module used for?
It’s designed to help you define, manage, and monitor your organisation’s strategic objectives. You can link them to risks, audits, controls, and assessments to ensure alignment and support better decision-making.
Can I set different risk appetites for each objective?
Why Organisations Use Business Objectives Software
Organisations choose objective-based risk management software to:
Align risk management with strategy
Protect organisational performance
Define and monitor appetite effectively
Strengthen executive oversight
Improve resilience
Demonstrate governance maturity
Rather than managing disconnected registers, you create a structured system that protects outcomes.
Is the module customisable to fit our organisation’s structure?
Absolutely. The module is fully customisable, from naming conventions and workflows to permissions and layout, ensuring it fits seamlessly into your organisation.
How do I get started with Symbiant’s Business Objectives Module?
Getting started is easy. Simply book a free, no-obligation demo and we’ll show you how Symbiant’s Business Objectives can be tailored to your exact needs. Every demo is personalised to your sector and risk framework, so you can see how the system works for your organisation. With full access to the complete solution from just £300/month, you can mix and match the modules you need and start managing risk with confidence.
Pricing Disclaimer
Symbiant’s Business Objectives Software, based on ISO 31000, links your strategic goals with risks and risk appetite for smarter, aligned decision-making. Fully integrated with the Risk Register and other GRC modules, it streamlines processes through automation, notifications, and customisable workflows, all tailored to your organisation.
Business Objectives Software to Align Goals,
Reduce Risk, and Drive Accountability
Symbiant’s Objectives Module helps you define and enforce strategic alignment across departments. From assigning actions to tracking updates and collaborating in real time, it keeps your objectives clear, connected, and always moving forward.
Define Objective-Level Risk Appetites and Enforce Alignment Across Risks
Set specific appetites for each business objective. Any connected risks must align, helping you identify threats that exceed tolerance and act before they cause failure.
Delegate Objective Actions and Lock Accountability
Assign objective-related actions to specific users with a tamper-proof design, so responsibilities stay clear and updates can’t be reassigned or altered without permission.
Stay Informed with Real-Time Objective Updates
Automated emails and reminders keep everyone in the loop, no more chasing updates or worrying about forgotten tasks. Objectives stay on track, always.
Work Together Across Objectives, Tasks, and Actions
Enable multiple users to contribute in real time, from updating information to completing tasks — for faster progress and shared responsibility.
Connect Objectives Across Modules for a Fully Integrated GRC Framework
You can link Business Objectives to multiple modules across your system for greater alignment and visibility. Most commonly, Objectives are connected to: Controls and Policies, Risk Registers, and Assessment Questionnaires, but you can link them to any module you choose, creating a fully tailored, integrated solution.
Governance becomes more strategic with AI support for:
- Suggesting new, relevant business objectives tailored to your operations
- Linking objectives to existing risks for stronger alignment and visibility
- Identifying new potential risks associated with your objectives
- Improving strategic planning and risk awareness across departments