“finding the gaps and cracks that cause the loss and fixing them.”
In my career, I heard countless times “work smarter, not harder.” I heard an equal number of times how the government is going to root out “fraud, waste and abuse.”
Rarely do those things happen and certainly not with the same leadership. Even with new leadership, you have people doing things the way they have for years or decades. Changing organizations, even with only a few hundred or maybe a thousand people is incredibly hard. People have vested interests in the power they have accumulated and keeping their little fiefdoms alive.
“Finding the cracks and fixing them” is usually a Herculean effort and, in my experience, usually delivers nothing.
[I heard countless times “work smarter, not harder.”]
How about “Think outside the box”?
There’s a great one.
In I.T. we call this "root cause analysis" and done properly and well, usually delivers amazing results. I'm one of the people left at the large multi-national bank I work for that happens to excel in it due to my 35+ years in the field and actually liking that type of work. You'd be amazed at how sometimes the most simple, basic changes deliver big results.
There are also times where herculean efforts are required to "fix things" which involve process, technology and occasionally swapping people out to make the process changes required.
As someone noted above, people tend to get stuck in the "we've always done it this way" rut where change becomes far more difficult than it needs to be. In those cases, getting those people out of the way is required. Hate doing it, but if someone refuses to change, off they go to another system, project, or out of the bank entirely if necessary.
I kind of see this entire military exercise in the same sort of light. Of course, I have zero military experience so I could be 1,000% wrong. (Wouldn't be the first time, ask my GF.)