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  • Relationship Trouble: The Pandemic’s Web of Interconnected Risks

    Relationship Trouble: The Pandemic’s Web of Interconnected Risks

    Below is Michael Rasmussen’s article found in the Summer 2021 issue of Enterprise Risk, published by the Institute of Risk Management (The IRM). Before last year, risk managers knew they were living in… Continue reading Relationship Trouble: The Pandemic’s Web of Interconnected Risks

  • Integrating a Top-Down Board View of GRC With a Bottom-Up Operational View of GRC

    Integrating a Top-Down Board View of GRC With a Bottom-Up Operational View of GRC

    In my previous post, The Board’s Role in Leading and Enabling GRC, I emphasized the board’s critical role in delivering on the G in GRC, governance. This post discusses how to… Continue reading Integrating a Top-Down Board View of GRC With a Bottom-Up Operational View of GRC

  • The Second Wave of the Policy Management Pandemic

    The Second Wave of the Policy Management Pandemic

    COVID-19 is not the only pandemic; it has sprung a chain of pandemics and increased risk exposure in areas. One such pandemic plaguing organizations in response to COVID-19 is the… Continue reading The Second Wave of the Policy Management Pandemic

  • Modern Slavery Risk Assessments in the Extended Enterprise: A Quick Guide

    Modern Slavery Risk Assessments in the Extended Enterprise: A Quick Guide

    In my first post, A Quick Guide to ESG and Risk Management in the Extended Enterprise, I outlined what ESG (environmental, social and governance) is and how it impacts third-party risk… Continue reading Modern Slavery Risk Assessments in the Extended Enterprise: A Quick Guide

  • The Board’s Role in Leading and Enabling GRC

    The Board’s Role in Leading and Enabling GRC

    Gone are the years of simplicity in business operations. Exponential growth and changes in risks, regulations, globalization, distributed operations, competitive velocity, technology, and business data encumber organizations of all sizes.… Continue reading The Board’s Role in Leading and Enabling GRC

  • There is a new CIO in town . . . the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer (CECO)

    There is a new CIO in town . . . the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer (CECO)

    There is a new CIO in town . . . the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer (CECO). This is not to replace the Chief Information Officer, but the CECO is… Continue reading There is a new CIO in town . . . the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer (CECO)

  • A Quick Guide to Anti-Bribery & Corruption (ABAC) Risk in the Extended Enterprise

    A Quick Guide to Anti-Bribery & Corruption (ABAC) Risk in the Extended Enterprise

    In my previous post, A Quick Guide to ESG and Risk Management in the Extended Enterprise, I outlined what environmental, social and governance (ESG) is and how it impacts third-party risk… Continue reading A Quick Guide to Anti-Bribery & Corruption (ABAC) Risk in the Extended Enterprise

  • ESG is about to ROCK the Third-Party Risk World

    ESG is about to ROCK the Third-Party Risk World

    The extended enterprise defines business today. An organization is not defined by brick and mortar walls and traditional employees. The organization is a web of third-party relationships of suppliers, vendors,… Continue reading ESG is about to ROCK the Third-Party Risk World

  • Where Should Compliance & Ethics Report?

    Where Should Compliance & Ethics Report?

    Having an opinion of where corporate compliance and ethics should report outside of legal is like the opening sequence to Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark. Indiana carefully makes his… Continue reading Where Should Compliance & Ethics Report?

  • A Quick Guide to ESG and Risk Management in the Extended Enterprise

    A Quick Guide to ESG and Risk Management in the Extended Enterprise

    Environmental, social and governance practices are under increasing regulatory scrutiny. How well is your third-party risk management program structured to assess these risks? Today, organizations are increasingly challenged to address… Continue reading A Quick Guide to ESG and Risk Management in the Extended Enterprise

  • Legal GRC in Contrast to Legal’s Role in Enterprise GRC

    Legal GRC in Contrast to Legal’s Role in Enterprise GRC

    In today’s global business environment, a broad spectrum of economic, political, social, legal, and regulatory changes continually takes the organization to a new level of strategic and tactical complexity and… Continue reading Legal GRC in Contrast to Legal’s Role in Enterprise GRC

  • Improving Your Organizations Policy Management Capability

    Improving Your Organizations Policy Management Capability

    Previously we looked at Why Policies Matter and The Principles of Policy Management from the newly published Policy Management Capability Model that I developed with OCEG for PolicyManagementPro.com. This week… Continue reading Improving Your Organizations Policy Management Capability