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  • COGNITIVE GRC: Enabling Regulatory Change Management

    COGNITIVE GRC: Enabling Regulatory Change Management

    Keeping up with regulatory content can be a challenge. The constant changes in today’s regulatory environments translate to a growing burden on organizations in terms of the number of regulations… Continue reading COGNITIVE GRC: Enabling Regulatory Change Management

  • Cognitive GRC (GRC 5.0): Enabling Enterprise Risk Agility & Resilience

    Cognitive GRC (GRC 5.0): Enabling Enterprise Risk Agility & Resilience

    Organizations need to be agile, not just resilient. Agility is the ability to see what is coming at the organization and allow the organization to adjust and navigate to use… Continue reading Cognitive GRC (GRC 5.0): Enabling Enterprise Risk Agility & Resilience

  • ESG: The Foundation is Built on Policies

    ESG: The Foundation is Built on Policies

    I have been advising organizations on strategy, process, and technology related to ESG for over fifteen years. Of course, it has not been called ESG for that long. It was… Continue reading ESG: The Foundation is Built on Policies

  • Checklist to Measure & Improve Risk & Resilience Maturity

    Checklist to Measure & Improve Risk & Resilience Maturity

    The mature risk and resilience program can be measured against critical elements across governance and oversight, people and engagement, process and execution, and information and technology. Risk & Resilience Governance… Continue reading Checklist to Measure & Improve Risk & Resilience Maturity

  • Advancing Your Organization’s Risk and Resilience Maturity

    Advancing Your Organization’s Risk and Resilience Maturity

    Getting to the Head of the Risk & Resiliency Class Organizations with risk and resilience processes siloed within departments operate at the Ad Hoc, Fragmented, or Defined stage. At these… Continue reading Advancing Your Organization’s Risk and Resilience Maturity

  • Five Stages of Risk and Resilience Maturity

    Five Stages of Risk and Resilience Maturity

    Mature risk and resilience management is a seamless part of risk governance and operations. It requires a top-down view of risk and resilience, led by the executives and the board,… Continue reading Five Stages of Risk and Resilience Maturity

  • The Human Firewall: Essential to Organizations

    The Human Firewall: Essential to Organizations

    Firewalls protect us. In buildings, it is a wall intended to shield and confine a fire to an area to protect the rest of the building. In a vehicle, it… Continue reading The Human Firewall: Essential to Organizations

  • Agile & Cognitive GRC: a New Generation in GRC Solutions

    Agile & Cognitive GRC: a New Generation in GRC Solutions

    I have been on the road regularly for the past six weeks with a heavy travel schedule through mid-July that brings me across the USA and Europe. Lots of interactions… Continue reading Agile & Cognitive GRC: a New Generation in GRC Solutions

  • Delivering 360° Third-Party Risk Situational Awareness

    Delivering 360° Third-Party Risk Situational Awareness

    A dynamic business environment requires the capability to actively manage risk intelligence and fluctuating risks impacting the organization and its relationships. The old paradigm of uncoordinated third-party risk management is… Continue reading Delivering 360° Third-Party Risk Situational Awareness

  • 360° Risk Intelligence in the Extended Enterprise

    360° Risk Intelligence in the Extended Enterprise

    The Modern Organization is an Interconnected Web of Relationships The structure and reality of business today has changed. Traditional brick-and-mortar business is a thing of the past: physical buildings and… Continue reading 360° Risk Intelligence in the Extended Enterprise

  • How to Operationalize ESG with GRC

    How to Operationalize ESG with GRC

    Take advantage of GRC’s structured guidance to deliver on ESG strategy and processes. ESG – Environmental, Social, and Governance – is pressuring organizations from every angle. Investors are making investment… Continue reading How to Operationalize ESG with GRC

  • Improving FedRAMP: Federal Procurement & Risk Management

    Improving FedRAMP: Federal Procurement & Risk Management

    The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) has been in place for just over a decade (2011). Its purpose is to provide a “cost-effective, risk-based approach for the adoption… Continue reading Improving FedRAMP: Federal Procurement & Risk Management