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Understanding Third Party GRC Maturity: Ad Hoc Stage
A haphazard department and document centric approach for third party GRC compounds the problem and does not solve it. It is time for organizations to step back and mature their… Continue reading Understanding Third Party GRC Maturity: Ad Hoc Stage
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Policy Management Technology: Separating the Simple from the Advanced
Most organizations are waking up to find their policies in a complete disarray. Over the years policy portals have sprung up across the organization. HR has their portal, IT has… Continue reading Policy Management Technology: Separating the Simple from the Advanced
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Michael Rasmussen on GRC value & creating your GRC RFP template
What do you need to include in a GRC RFP? We asked one of the experts in this interview. Enterprise governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) strategies can help organizations across… Continue reading Michael Rasmussen on GRC value & creating your GRC RFP template
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From Ad Hoc to Agile: Set Your Course for Third-Party GRC Maturity
This post is an excerpt from GRC 20/20’s most recent research piece, Third Party GRC Maturity Model: A New Paradigm in Governing Third Party Relationships, and upcoming webinar From Ad… Continue reading From Ad Hoc to Agile: Set Your Course for Third-Party GRC Maturity
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Defining a Risk Culture: Critical Elements of an Enterprise Risk Management Policy
I am amazed at the number of risk management programs I encounter that lack an organized structure and approach. So often what we know as ERM (enterprise risk management) is… Continue reading Defining a Risk Culture: Critical Elements of an Enterprise Risk Management Policy
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Challenges in Risk Management
Providing 360° Contextual Awareness of Risk The physicist, Fritjof Capra, made an insightful observation on living organisms and ecosystems that also rings true when applied to risk management: The more… Continue reading Challenges in Risk Management
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How Analytics is Influencing Governance, Risk Management & Compliance (GRC)
Humans excel at analytics; it is the way our brains are wired. We are constantly taking in information, processing, analyzing, and making decisions. Whether it is crossing a street, reading… Continue reading How Analytics is Influencing Governance, Risk Management & Compliance (GRC)
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Next Generation Policy & Training Management Technology
GRC 20/20 interacts with a lot of organizations as they evaluate solutions for policy and training management. As the only analyst firm that breaks this functionality out as its own… Continue reading Next Generation Policy & Training Management Technology
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Step 3: Select the Right Equipment for the 3rd Party GRC Journey
This is the 3rd blog in a 5-part series on developing a strategic plan for Third Party Governance/Management in your organization. Growing up in Northwest Montana I spent a lot… Continue reading Step 3: Select the Right Equipment for the 3rd Party GRC Journey
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GRC Behemoth vs Agile GRC
Outside of Governance, Risk Management & Compliance (GRC), my passion and interest is in British medieval history – from the Anglo-Saxon period through the Plantagenets and the War of the… Continue reading GRC Behemoth vs Agile GRC
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Step 2: Conditioning is Critical, Make Sure Your Team and Systems are Ready for 3rd Party GRC
This is the 2nd blog in a 5-part series on developing a strategic plan for Third Party Governance/Management in your organization. With an understanding of where you are at and… Continue reading Step 2: Conditioning is Critical, Make Sure Your Team and Systems are Ready for 3rd Party GRC
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Step 1: Develop a 3rd Party GRC Strategic Plan
I grew up in the Northwest corner of Montana, a beautiful but wild country. From my earliest years I loved the outdoors. In fact, long before any aspirations to build… Continue reading Step 1: Develop a 3rd Party GRC Strategic Plan