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  • Enabling 360° Insight & Control of Third Party Relationships    

    Enabling 360° Insight & Control of Third Party Relationships    

    The Extended Enterprise Demands Attention The Modern Organization is an Interconnected Mess of Relationships No man is an island, entire of itself; Every man is a piece of the continent,… Continue reading Enabling 360° Insight & Control of Third Party Relationships    

  • Providing 360° Contextual Awareness of Risk

    Monitoring and Managing Risk Effectively A Challenge for Boards, Executives, and Risk Management Professionals Organizations take risks all the time but fail to monitor and manage risk effectively. Organizations need… Continue reading Providing 360° Contextual Awareness of Risk

  • Enabling an Integrated Compliance Lifecycle

    Inevitability of Failure Ineffective Processes to Manage Regulatory Change and Compliance Regulatory change is overwhelming organizations across industries. Organizations are past the point of treading water as they actively drown in… Continue reading Enabling an Integrated Compliance Lifecycle

  • Enabling 360° Insight & Control of Third Party Relationships

    The Extended Enterprise Demands Attention Organizations are no longer a self-contained entity defined by brick and mortar walls and traditional employees. The modern organisation is comprised of a mixture of… Continue reading Enabling 360° Insight & Control of Third Party Relationships

  • Legal at the Center of GRC Leadership and Strategy

    Legal at the Center of GRC Leadership and Strategy

    Legal Challenges in a New Era Today’s global business environment presents a broad spectrum of economic, political, social, legal and regulatory changes, which continually increase strategic and tactical complexity, and… Continue reading Legal at the Center of GRC Leadership and Strategy

  • Managing Change is the Greatest GRC Challenge

    Managing Change is the Greatest GRC Challenge

    Change is the single greatest challenge for organizations in the context of governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC). Managing the dynamic and intricate web of change and how it impacts the… Continue reading Managing Change is the Greatest GRC Challenge

  • Inevitability of Failure: Flawed Use of Spreadsheets in GRC

    Inevitability of Failure: Flawed Use of Spreadsheets in GRC

    Spreadsheets, and their associates documents and emails, are the most prevalent GRC tool used by organizations. Their use comes at a significant cost if not controlled, monitored, and used properly.… Continue reading Inevitability of Failure: Flawed Use of Spreadsheets in GRC

  • Making Sense of GRC Related Technology & Solutions

    Every organization does GRC (governance, risk management, and compliance), but it does not mean that every organization does GRC well. Complicating this is a maze of GRC technologies. Some are… Continue reading Making Sense of GRC Related Technology & Solutions

  • Mistakes & Challenges in Risk Management Technologies and Strategies

    Risk management is pervasive throughout organizations. There are many departments that manage risk with a variety of approaches, models, needs, and views into risk. This makes enterprise and operational risk management… Continue reading Mistakes & Challenges in Risk Management Technologies and Strategies

  • Manage Third Party Risk Exposure in an Interconnected World

    Realize that everything connects to everything else. Leonardo da Vinci The world is flat, risk is pervasive, and organizations have no boundaries. We operate in a global and interconnected world.… Continue reading Manage Third Party Risk Exposure in an Interconnected World

  • FCPA: Change is in the Air

    The past few months have seen some interesting developments in context of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). I get more questions on anti-bribery and corruption than any other… Continue reading FCPA: Change is in the Air

  • From Backcountry Ranger to GRC Pundit

    It is the Thanksgiving holiday here in the United States, so I thought I would make this post a little more personal. I am grateful for all of my clients,… Continue reading From Backcountry Ranger to GRC Pundit