Assurance is an OUTCOME not an ACTIVITY
Assurance is not an activity that compliance does or something that can be inspected into a business. It is an outcome that is created...
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- May 16, 2021
- 2 min
The Most Important Risk Control
Change can be and often is a significant source of risk for organizations. That is why managing risk resulting from change is one of the...
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- Feb 2, 2021
- 2 min
Are You Neglecting Your Compliance Boundary?
When it comes to compliance there is a boundary that exists between what is inside an organization and what is outside. This compliance...
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- Jun 1, 2020
- 1 min
Shaping Your Compliance Future
Pro-activity can be applied at any level within an organization. However, it is primarily the role of management programs achieved by...
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- Apr 2, 2020
- 3 min
The Proactive Certainty Challenge
Take the proactive certainty challenge, become a member today.
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- Mar 25, 2020
- 1 min
NEW COMPLIANCE RESILIENCY PROGRAM
Companies need effective risk & compliance systems to ensure they stay between the lines during normal operations and even more so during...
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- Feb 27, 2020
- 5 min
A Safety Management System for Everyone
Adopting a Safety Management System (SMS) has typically required significant resources, large teams, and expensive technologies and...
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- Nov 27, 2019
- 2 min
System Dynamics
System dynamics (SD) according to the System Dynamics Society is a computer aided approach to policy analysis and design. It applies ...
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- Jun 20, 2019
- 1 min
Voluntary Information Sharing
Many of us participate in consumer platforms that collect and use data to improve their products, operations, and ultimately profits....
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- Jun 6, 2019
- 2 min
How to Transform Culture
Culture is difficult to define and hard to measure, but without the right one a company cannot succeed. A common definition for culture...
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- May 29, 2019
- 3 min
LEAN - Lost in Translation
There are times when leadership sets their gaze on operations in order to better delight their customers, increase margins, or improve...
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- May 23, 2019
- 8 min
What is Management of Change
Change can be a significant source of risk. That is why compliance programs include a risk-based process for managing planned changes....
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- May 16, 2019
- 4 min
Turning Best Effort Into Best Outcome
When it comes to playing games where the goal is to have fun “Best Effort” is often applauded and even celebrated. We often hear...
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- May 9, 2019
- 3 min
Governance, Risk and Compliance
GRC is an acronym for: governance, risk, and compliance which originated from the management consulting world to describe processes...
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- Apr 22, 2019
- 1 min
Holes in the System
It is only by anticipating, planning, and acting that prevents risks from becoming a reality.
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- Mar 5, 2019
- 4 min
A Systems Roadmap for API RP 1173
API RP 1173 provides a framework for companies to evaluate their safety systems and processes to more effectively buy down risk and...
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- Feb 19, 2019
- 3 min
Two Steps Forward Three Steps Back
I have spent most of my career building information and management systems in support of engineering, compliance, and mission critical...
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- Jan 3, 2019
- 1 min
Minimal Viable Performance (MVP)
Outcomes are the effects of capabilities which means that you if you want to advance your outcomes you need to advance your capabilities....
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- Oct 25, 2018
- 2 min
Regulatory Compliance Not Enough
In a recent decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal they stated that the general duty clause in the Occupational Health and Safety Act,...
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- Oct 18, 2018
- 4 min
Why we need Compliance Excellence
Continuous Improvement (CI) is an essential part of operational excellence to increase the performance of operational processes used in...
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- Sep 10, 2018
- 1 min
Crossing the ethical chasm of data - a compliance perspective
"Compliance, in many ways, is about doing the right thing at the right time in the right way. Collecting evidentiary material is an...
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- Sep 3, 2018
- 1 min
5 Questions You Must Answer to Improve Your Compliance
The goal of a compliance program is to improve the level of compliance of an organization. This differs from the goal of a compliance...
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- Aug 17, 2018
- 1 min
Why is focusing on non-conformance missing the point?
Focusing on non-conformance is the first level of compliance. This involves meeting the prescriptive part of a regulation or industry...
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- Aug 8, 2018
- 1 min
Time to Upgrade your Navigational System
A compass helps you to stay on course as you head towards your destination provided the world is flat. However, a compass can never...
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