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Every compliance decision your organization makes is either systematically building competitive advantage or destroying value. There is...

The Current Challenge AI systems are increasingly deployed without the systematic design approaches that have proven effective in other...

Three Dimensions of Strategic Alignment in Compliance I've spent enough years in regulated industries to see the same pattern everywhere:...

Organizations spend a lot of time talking about culture. Safety culture, quality culture, risk culture. We create frameworks, run...

Taiichi Ohno's Secret to Delivering Total Value To understand this approach, we need to return to the origins of LEAN manufacturing when...

Applying Lean to Digital Waste The digital transformation has fundamentally changed how work gets done, but it has also created a new...

STAMP/STPA and traditional PHA methods like HAZOP represent fundamentally different safety analysis philosophies. STAMP/STPA views...

Imagine you're a ship captain navigating treacherous waters. Most captains rely on their damage control teams—when the hull gets...

When it comes to GRC systems, there can be a significant gap between what gets implemented and what's actually needed to achieve the...

Compliance Effectiveness Gap Compliance has been heading in a new direction over the last decade. It's moving beyond paper and procedural...

The software engineering and related domains are undergoing their most dramatic transformation in decades. In discussions I have had over...

When a technology can reshape entire industries, automate critical decisions, and potentially act autonomously in the physical world, how...

A simple test to bust through the hype These days, AI providers, leaders, and evangelists claim that AI technology will transform any...

Lean Compliance Reflections I often think about the future of Lean Compliance, especially lately as I feel compliance is approaching a...

Operational Compliance Organizations investing in compliance often have legitimate questions about how the Operational Compliance Model...

The distinction between Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) platforms reveals a fundamental...

As AI systems evolve from simple tools into autonomous agents capable of independent decision-making and action, we face a fundamental...

By Raimund Laqua, PMP, P.Eng., Founder and Chief Compliance Engineer at Lean Compliance I've spent 30 years in the trenches of...

Working with AI over the past year opened my eyes to a systemic problem: AI systems are stuck in the past. This creates both a serious...

AI Assurance isn't just about checking boxes before deployment. As the European Defence Agency shows us, it's now a continuous journey...

In my three decades as a compliance engineer, I've watched our profession's obsession with check-boxes undermine effective risk...

Ethics in AI is fundamentally an alignment problem between technological capabilities and human values. While discussions often focus on...

As a compliance engineer, I've watched AI transform from research curiosity to world-changing technology. What began as exciting progress...

The business world is changing fast as companies adopt AI technology. At a recent conference that I attended, experts shared valuable...