Organizational exposure to compliance risk is rising while the cost of compliance soars. Additionally, the ad hoc, reactive approach to compliance brings complexity, forcing business to be less agile. Organizations… Continue reading Streamlining Compliance

John Capobianco, CEO of Lumigent, recently published “GRC Starts with ‘C’” commentary. While there is much to be admired about Lumigent’s messaging and awareness campaign of application GRC – I… Continue reading Response to Lumigent's "GRC Starts With C"

  Unfortunately, organizations get locked into a static view of risk analysis and management.They are overly focused on heat maps generated from fairly static risk assessment processes. The era of… Continue reading Mutli-Perspective Risk Analysis

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