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  • 2022 GRC Research Year in Review

    2022 GRC Research Year in Review

    Wow! 2022, what a rollercoaster of a year for GRC – governance, risk management, and compliance. Top discussions this past year have been around ESG, risk agility, resilience, third-party risk… Continue reading 2022 GRC Research Year in Review

  • Where Policy Management Fails

    Where Policy Management Fails

    After exploring Where Third-Party Risk Management Fails and Where Risk Management Fails, I now turn my attention to my biggest soapbox, Where Policy Management Fails . . . First it… Continue reading Where Policy Management Fails

  • State of GRC: A Future of Agility, Resiliency & Integrity

    State of GRC: A Future of Agility, Resiliency & Integrity

    Below is an abstract and the video of my keynote from the Konnect 2022 conference. My next keynote will be at #RISK in London on November 16th and 17th where… Continue reading State of GRC: A Future of Agility, Resiliency & Integrity

  • Where Risk Management Strategy & Technology Fail . . .

    Where Risk Management Strategy & Technology Fail . . .

    Last week we explored where third-party risk management strategy and technology fail, this week we turn our attention to where enterprise/operational/integrated risk management strategies and technologies fail. Yes, that world… Continue reading Where Risk Management Strategy & Technology Fail . . .

  • Strengthen Your Cybersecurity Management Policy With the Human Firewall

    Strengthen Your Cybersecurity Management Policy With the Human Firewall

    The need for cybersecurity is growing with the dynamic, distributed, disrupted, and particularly digital nature of business. Digital transformation is making cybersecurity even more critical to protect the organization, maintain… Continue reading Strengthen Your Cybersecurity Management Policy With the Human Firewall

  • ESG and the Geopolitical Complexities of Supplier Risk

    ESG and the Geopolitical Complexities of Supplier Risk

    How do you define the modern organization?  There is no binary boundary to the organization anymore, no more black and white. It is impossible to clearly state that this is… Continue reading ESG and the Geopolitical Complexities of Supplier Risk

  • Where Third-Party Risk Strategy & Technology Fail . . .

    Where Third-Party Risk Strategy & Technology Fail . . .

    The modern organization is not defined by brick-and-mortar walls and traditional employees. The modern organization is the Extended Enterprise of third-party and nth-party relationships. The suppliers, vendors, outsourcers, service providers,… Continue reading Where Third-Party Risk Strategy & Technology Fail . . .

  • Measuring Value: Making GRC Processes Efficient, Effective, and Agile

    Measuring Value: Making GRC Processes Efficient, Effective, and Agile

    Have you ever heard of the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California? It’s a sprawling mansion that was built in the 1800s at the cost of $5.5 million (calculate inflation,… Continue reading Measuring Value: Making GRC Processes Efficient, Effective, and Agile

  • Practically Understanding and Delivering ESG in Today’s Organization

    Practically Understanding and Delivering ESG in Today’s Organization

    ESG – Environmental, Social, and Governance – has been creating a barrage of pressure upon organizations across industries and around the world in recent years. Corporate investors are making capital… Continue reading Practically Understanding and Delivering ESG in Today’s Organization

  • Rasmussen’s Strategic Pillars of GRC: Agility, Resiliency, Integrity

    Rasmussen’s Strategic Pillars of GRC: Agility, Resiliency, Integrity

    The physicist Fritjof Capra stated: “The more we study the major problems of our time, the more we come to realize that they cannot be understood in isolation. They are systemic… Continue reading Rasmussen’s Strategic Pillars of GRC: Agility, Resiliency, Integrity

  • GRC Done Right Starts With the Business: Objectives, Performance, Processes

    GRC Done Right Starts With the Business: Objectives, Performance, Processes

    Too often GRC – governance, risk management, compliance – is approached backwards. Using the acronym, one would think it is CRG, or even Cr (lower case intentional). Too many organizations… Continue reading GRC Done Right Starts With the Business: Objectives, Performance, Processes

  • The Exposure of Compliance at the Frontlines of the Organization

    The Exposure of Compliance at the Frontlines of the Organization

    Compliance and ethics do not happen in the back office but at all levels of the organization. From the top down to the front-line employees. Compliance and ethics done right… Continue reading The Exposure of Compliance at the Frontlines of the Organization