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Properly defining and setting goals is critical to mission success including the success of environmental, safety, security, quality, regulatory and other compliance programs. However, defining compliance goals remains a real challenge particularly for obligations associated with outcome and performance-based regulations and standards. When these goals are ambiguous or ill-defined they contribute to wasted efforts and ultimately compliance risk for an organization. To be more

Everything happens in the presence of uncertainty, and this uncertainty creates the opportunity for risk.

Not all obligations are the same or require the same capabilities or approaches to satisfy. Knowing the differences can help you better...

When it comes to improving compliance it is important to know not only what your obligations are but also how each obligation has been designed to perform the regulation function. Knowing this will help organizations better understand what is needed to meet their obligations by understanding: The level of compliance rigour required. The level of support needed from leadership and management Controls that may need to be established Who is accountability for which part (self, i

ISO 19600 and 37301 define compliance as the outcome of meeting a company's obligations. These obligations arise from such things as...

The focus on value-based outcomes has become a dominant approach in the health care sector over the last few decades. It has also made...

In recent years many in the compliance industry have observed a shift in regulation from prescriptive to performance and outcome-based designs. What we are seeing is only the beginning of a trickle down effect emerging from regulatory reform over the last few decades across regulatory jurisdictions and across the world. During this time an increasing number of regulatory bodies have started to modernized the function of regulation, its processes and practices, and how regulat