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  • GRC 2011: Gripes & Directions

    No matter if you use the term or not – GRC (Governance, Risk Management, & Compliance) is a reality.  We are in 2011 and it has been ten years now… Continue reading GRC 2011: Gripes & Directions

  • Regulatory Intelligence Enabled by a GRC Technology Platform

    The core elements of a regulatory intelligence process can be delivered in a GRC software platform. The solution will allow the compliance and legal functions to profile regulations, link regulatory… Continue reading Regulatory Intelligence Enabled by a GRC Technology Platform

  • Approaching Regulatory Change as a Consistent Process

      The old paradigm of regulatory change management is clearly a recipe for disaster given the volume, pace of change and the broader operational impact of today’s laws and regulations.… Continue reading Approaching Regulatory Change as a Consistent Process

  • Manual and Ad Hoc Regulatory Change Processes

      Over the years, many organizations have matured in their view of internal risk-intelligence issues. However, monitoring external regulatory environments remains a broken process. To date, regulatory risk is managed… Continue reading Manual and Ad Hoc Regulatory Change Processes

  • Regulatory Intelligence: Bombardment of Regulations upon Organizations

      After a brief hiatus, I turn our attention back to the issues of policy management and compliance. We will now explore (over several posts) the issue of Regulatory Intelligence… Continue reading Regulatory Intelligence: Bombardment of Regulations upon Organizations

  • GRC Market Developments: Reflections on IBM/OpenPages, Wolters Kluwer/FRS Global, and Thomson Reuters

      New GRC strategies, mergers, acquisitions . . . the last few weeks have been hopping for a market research analyst.Every time I sat down to blog on my thoughts… Continue reading GRC Market Developments: Reflections on IBM/OpenPages, Wolters Kluwer/FRS Global, and Thomson Reuters

  • Why GRC & What Is It?

     Why GRC & What Is It? GRC, simply put, is to provide collaboration between silos of governance, risk, and compliance. It is to get different business roles to share information… Continue reading Why GRC & What Is It?

  • Policy Communication in a YouTube Generation

      I am a man on a mission. Make that a business on a mission – to completely refocus organizations on how they approach policy management and communication. To take… Continue reading Policy Communication in a YouTube Generation

  • Managing Risk & Compliance Across Extended Business Relationships

      Businesses are engaged in a continuous struggle to grasp the intricacies of risk management in an interconnected environment. The focus during the past few years has been on operational… Continue reading Managing Risk & Compliance Across Extended Business Relationships

  • SAI Global Acquires Integrity Interactive

    There has been a lot of consolidation and restructuring in the GRC space already in 2010 – SAI Global takes the next step by acquiring Integrity Interactive.   This is… Continue reading SAI Global Acquires Integrity Interactive

  • SAP and CA Deliver on Comprehensive Vision of Integration of GRC

    As an industry pundit and analyst it is always fun to play match maker. For some time I have been pontificating that SAP and CA are very complimentary in their… Continue reading SAP and CA Deliver on Comprehensive Vision of Integration of GRC

  • Achieve GRC Value: Efficient Business Process and Application Monitoring

      Business today requires agility and efficiency to stay competitive. Organizations must respond rapidly to changing conditions, while managing financial and human capital costs. Compliance processes often work against business… Continue reading Achieve GRC Value: Efficient Business Process and Application Monitoring