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  • How to Tie a Compliance & Ethics Bow Tie

    How to Tie a Compliance & Ethics Bow Tie

    Compliance and ethics are a growing challenge and concern in organizations. Faced with increasing regulatory change, enforcement actions, audits and exams, and liability and exposure, compliance and ethics is in… Continue reading How to Tie a Compliance & Ethics Bow Tie

  • Agile and Integrated Compliance: Managing Compliance in Dynamic Business

    Agile and Integrated Compliance: Managing Compliance in Dynamic Business

    Compliance is Not Easy Organizations across industries have global clients, partners, and business operations. Adding to the complexity of global business, today’s organization is dynamic and constantly changing. New employees… Continue reading Agile and Integrated Compliance: Managing Compliance in Dynamic Business

  • The GRC Pundit Podcast: Toni Villanen of Majid Al Futtaim

    The GRC Pundit Podcast: Toni Villanen of Majid Al Futtaim

    In this podcast The GRC Pundit of GRC 20/20 Research, LLC interviews Toni Villanen of Majid Al Futtaim to discuss #riskmanagement #ERM #ORM #GRC – where it has been, where it is now, and where it… Continue reading The GRC Pundit Podcast: Toni Villanen of Majid Al Futtaim

  • Policy Management and Remote Work: Adapting to the New Normal

    Policy Management and Remote Work: Adapting to the New Normal

    The COVID-19 pandemic has changed everything. What started as a health and safety risk has had a domino impact of other risks that have resulted in changed business practices, processes,… Continue reading Policy Management and Remote Work: Adapting to the New Normal

  • GRC Pundit Podcast: ING GRC Orchestrate Project

    GRC Pundit Podcast: ING GRC Orchestrate Project

    In this podcast The GRC Pundit interviews Ian Hollowbread and Mukund Umalkar of ING to discuss the future of GRC technology and their GRC Orchestrate Project. I have a dream.… Continue reading GRC Pundit Podcast: ING GRC Orchestrate Project

  • Next Generation Corporate Compliance & Ethics Architecture

    Compliance and ethics have become a critical challenge in organizations around the world. Faced with growing regulatory change increased enforcement actions, and a greater focused on the social responsibility and… Continue reading Next Generation Corporate Compliance & Ethics Architecture

  • At the Cross-roads: A Tale of Four Third Party GRC/Risk Management Roads to Travel

    At the Cross-roads: A Tale of Four Third Party GRC/Risk Management Roads to Travel

    The naturalist John Muir stated, “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” This not only applies to nature… Continue reading At the Cross-roads: A Tale of Four Third Party GRC/Risk Management Roads to Travel

  • Driving Efficiency into Compliance & Ethics Processes: Time Saved = Money Saved

    Driving Efficiency into Compliance & Ethics Processes: Time Saved = Money Saved

    Managing compliance and ethics has become a complex web of processes and information. The modern organization is constantly changing: new employees, shifting employees and responsibilities, evolving business processes, new and… Continue reading Driving Efficiency into Compliance & Ethics Processes: Time Saved = Money Saved

  • Compliance & Ethics is Rapidly Evolving

    Compliance & Ethics is Rapidly Evolving

    Evolution and change happen: sometimes slowly, sometimes rapidly. In the context of compliance and ethics programs, we are seeing a significant and rapid evolution of what is expected of organizations.… Continue reading Compliance & Ethics is Rapidly Evolving

  • Managing Risk Creatively & Structurally

    Managing Risk Creatively & Structurally

    I think best in the abstract and imaginative. My mind is wired to be more intuitive and see relationships and images. I am more like my mother. My brother, he… Continue reading Managing Risk Creatively & Structurally

  • Privacy, Pandemics, and Business Change…OH MY!!!

    Privacy, Pandemics, and Business Change…OH MY!!!

    The world is in turbulence all around us. What started as a health and safety issue in Asia has had a cascading impact around the world. Economic uncertainty, health and… Continue reading Privacy, Pandemics, and Business Change…OH MY!!!

  • The Pandemic & the Dominos of Risk Interconnectedness

    The Pandemic & the Dominos of Risk Interconnectedness

    Risk, according to ISO 31000, is “the effect of uncertainty on objectives.” Uncertainty is all around us in 2020. Organizations go through a lot of effort to try to put… Continue reading The Pandemic & the Dominos of Risk Interconnectedness