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Lean Compliance Principles, Practices, & Insights


AI Engineering: The Last Discipline Standing
The software engineering and related domains are undergoing their most dramatic transformation in decades. In discussions I have had over...


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


Does Your AI Strategy Pass the Ketchup Test?
A simple test to bust through the hype These days, AI providers, leaders, and evangelists claim that AI technology will transform any...


Lean Compliance: A Founder's Reflection
Lean Compliance Reflections I often think about the future of Lean Compliance, especially lately as I feel compliance is approaching a...


Understanding Operational Compliance: Key Questions Answered
Operational Compliance Organizations investing in compliance often have legitimate questions about how the Operational Compliance Model...


ERP vs GRC: Feed-Forward vs Feed-Back Systems
The distinction between Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) platforms reveals a fundamental...


Promise Architectures: The New Guardrails for Agentic AI
As AI systems evolve from simple tools into autonomous agents capable of independent decision-making and action, we face a fundamental...


Engineered Compliance: Mapping Obligations to Outcomes in Regulated Industries
By Raimund Laqua, PMP, P.Eng., Founder and Chief Compliance Engineer at Lean Compliance I've spent 30 years in the trenches of...


AI's Most Serious Blindspot and Bias
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...


The New Face of AI Assurance: Why Audits and Certifications Are Not Enough
AI Assurance isn't just about checking boxes before deployment. As the European Defence Agency shows us, it's now a continuous journey...


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


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


Engineering Responsibility: A Practitioner's Guide to Meaningful AI Oversight
As a compliance engineer, I've watched AI transform from research curiosity to world-changing technology. What began as exciting progress...


Transforming Business Through AI: Key Insights
The business world is changing fast as companies adopt AI technology. At a recent conference that I attended, experts shared valuable...


When Rules Are Meant to Be Broken: Tackling Deliberate Non-Compliance
Every organization faces an uncomfortable reality that few discuss openly: some people deliberately circumvent established standards &...


Organizational Silos, Root Causes, and the Promise of GRC
A fundamental root cause of organizational dysfunction can be traced to Taylorism and scientific management approaches to organizational...


Operational Compliance - Update
The following diagram is a vertical orientation of our Operational Compliance Model updated to better emphasize how bridging the gap...


Lean Compliance - A Lamppost in an Uncertain World
After three decades in engineering and compliance, I took a leap of faith to address a critical gap I kept seeing in our industry. Eight...


Business Intelligence: Are We Asking the Right Question?
During our Elevate Compliance huddle this week, we explored how to transform data into compliance intelligence. Everyone agrees...


Where Does Compliance Belong
Organizations today grapple with numerous compliance requirements: safety, security, sustainability, privacy, quality, environmental,...


The Trinity of Trust: Monitoring, Observability, and Explainability in Modern Systems
In today's compliance landscape, organizations face mounting pressure to build reliable systems while meeting an expanding array of...


Why Your GRC Efforts Are Failing
When it comes to designing systems, a common mistake is confusing essential properties with essential parts. This fundamental error...


AI Risk in High-Consequence Industries: 5 Critical Challenges
The rush to implement artificial intelligence across highly-regulated sectors presents an urgent safety challenge that many organizations...


The Easter Egg Hidden in Plain Sight: How We Elevate GRC
Like all great Easter egg hunts, sometimes the most valuable treasures aren’t lost—they’re simply hidden where few think to look. Easter...
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