Intelligence and wisdom . . . we have seen these words bantered around quite a bit. While the market seems to be eager to grasp onto the phrase ‘risk intelligence’… Continue reading Risk & Regulatory Intelligence (or should it be Wisdom)?

As a risk and compliance (GRC) pundit one gets invited to a lot of conferences. Some, like Compliance Week, are particularly interesting as the format, content, and high-level audience remains… Continue reading Thoughts from the Archer National Summit

Legal – the last (OK, perhaps I should state latest) technology frontier – to boldly go where no one has embraced technology before. So it would appear to an observer… Continue reading Ultimate Legal Management Platform

There certainly is a lot of activity in the GRC – governance, risk, and compliance – software market. This is due to companies coming out of budget freezes imposed on… Continue reading Who is the largest GRC vendor?

  SAP continues to show thought leadership and growth in the GRC space as revealed in the GRC Insider conference last week. The conference itself is a combination of GRC,… Continue reading Thoughts from SAP GRC Insider

Friend, Frédéric Bastiat in the 19th century could have been talking (see quote above) about the complexity of managing risk and compliance across business in the 21st century.  So often organizations… Continue reading Ultimate 3rd Party/Supply-Chain Risk & Compliance Platform

The Titanic is a study in operational risk management. Unfortunately, many organizations are in the same state – they do not see a complete picture of the risks they face… Continue reading Ultimate Operational Risk Management Platform

A respected friend, Charles Le Grand, recently posted this on a mailing list we belong to . . .    It is a fundamental problem between risk takers and those… Continue reading Sound Advice Against Reckless Risk Taking

  The global economy is driving many organizations to develop enterprise risk management strategies.  Unfortunately for many they often interpret this as SOX on steroids and fail to deliver a… Continue reading Commodity Risk Management

  Chalres Dickens might as well have been speaking about the risk and compliance market (GRC market) when he stated “It was the best of times, it was the worst… Continue reading Risk & Compliance Market Trends in 2009

INQUIRY: Among the companies you speak with, which organizational departments (finance, operations, legal, HR, etc.) appear to have the most to gain from GRC automation?   RESPONSE: GRC is about… Continue reading INQUIRY: Among the companies you speak with, which organizational departments appear to have the most to gain GRC?

 INQUIRY:  What are the 3 most critical areas for further GRC automation in 2009 – and why?   RESPONSE: The top of my list is what I am calling “Next… Continue reading INQUIRY: What are the 3 most critical areas for further GRC automation in 2009 – and why?