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  • A CECO SWOT Analysis for 2021: Knowing Your Strengths

    A CECO SWOT Analysis for 2021: Knowing Your Strengths

    Distributed, dynamic, and disrupted business are driving significant changes to compliance strategies in 2021. In addressing compliance, GRC 20/20 observes that organizations are re-evaluating their internal core values, ethics, and… Continue reading A CECO SWOT Analysis for 2021: Knowing Your Strengths

  • The Resilient Organization: From Business Resilience down into Operational Resilience

    The Resilient Organization: From Business Resilience down into Operational Resilience

    Gone are the years of simplicity in business operations. Exponential growth and change in risks, regulations, globalization, processes, employees, distributed operations, competitive velocity, technology, third parties, and business data make… Continue reading The Resilient Organization: From Business Resilience down into Operational Resilience

  • 2021 Trends in Third-Party Governance, Risk Management & Compliance (GRC)

    2021 Trends in Third-Party Governance, Risk Management & Compliance (GRC)

    Looking Forward in 2021: What Can Be Expected  In the previous blog we reviewed what lessons were learned in third-party risk management in 2020, we now look into 2021 and… Continue reading 2021 Trends in Third-Party Governance, Risk Management & Compliance (GRC)

  • Third-Party GRC: Looking Back on 2020, What Was Learned ?

    Third-Party GRC: Looking Back on 2020, What Was Learned ?

    “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of… Continue reading Third-Party GRC: Looking Back on 2020, What Was Learned ?

  • Architecting a New Paradigm in Legal Governance

    Architecting a New Paradigm in Legal Governance

    Exponential growth and change in business strategy, risks, regulations, globalization, distributed operations, competitive velocity, technology, and business data encumbers organizations of all sizes. Gone are the years of simplicity in… Continue reading Architecting a New Paradigm in Legal Governance

  • The Role of Legal & Legal Processes is Changing

    The Role of Legal & Legal Processes is Changing

    The role of legal is growing in significance as it guides the enterprise beyond putting out the fires of legal matters. It is expanding into a proactive role in legal… Continue reading The Role of Legal & Legal Processes is Changing

  • Lessons Learned in Compliance Management in 2020

    Lessons Learned in Compliance Management in 2020

    What have we learned from 2020? I think all of us have learned quite a bit in both our personal and professional lives. 2020 has stretched us as individuals and… Continue reading Lessons Learned in Compliance Management in 2020

  • GRC 20/20’s 2020 Research Year in Review

    GRC 20/20’s 2020 Research Year in Review

    2020 was certainly a year for the history books. While it has been a roller coaster that moves on into 2021 now, it certainly had a lot of impact on… Continue reading GRC 20/20’s 2020 Research Year in Review

  • Why Spreadsheets, Documents & Emails Fail for GRC

    Why Spreadsheets, Documents & Emails Fail for GRC

    At times I can sound like a broken record – repeating myself over, and over, and over, and over again, and again, and again.  One of my prominent soapboxes over… Continue reading Why Spreadsheets, Documents & Emails Fail for GRC

  • Complexity of Business Demands a New Paradigm in Legal Governance, Risk Management & Compliance

    Complexity of Business Demands a New Paradigm in Legal Governance, Risk Management & Compliance

    Understanding the Interrelationship of Legal Risk and the Business In today’s global business environment, a broad spectrum of economic, political, social, legal, and regulatory changes are continually bombarding the organization.… Continue reading Complexity of Business Demands a New Paradigm in Legal Governance, Risk Management & Compliance

  • Operationalizing GRC in Context of Legal & Privacy: the Last Mile of GRC

    Operationalizing GRC in Context of Legal & Privacy: the Last Mile of GRC

    At its core, GRC is the capability to reliably achieve objectives [GOVERNANCE], address uncertainty [RISK MANAGEMENT], and act with integrity [COMPLIANCE]. GRC is something organizations do, not something they purchase.… Continue reading Operationalizing GRC in Context of Legal & Privacy: the Last Mile of GRC

  • Disclosure Management: Comparing Compliance Solutions

    Disclosure Management: Comparing Compliance Solutions

    Compliance disclosures are a critical element of an organization’s compliance and ethics management program. The organization requires structured approaches to managing disclosures such as conflicts of interest, and a way… Continue reading Disclosure Management: Comparing Compliance Solutions