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The following questions were asked in an interview with Raimund Laqua, Founder and Chief Compliance Engineer at Lean Compliance. 1. What...

Recently, I spoke with a safety expert who has worked for several decades in the safety industry. During this time he provided training,...

Change can be (and often is) a significant source of new risk. As a result, many companies have implemented the basics when it comes to...

Management systems are efficient at what they do, that is, doing the same thing the same way over and over again. What they tend not to...

When we consider compliance we often think of being compelled by regulation to follow an arbitrary set of rules that get in the way of...

Increasingly, companies are adopting continuous improvement driven by several methodologies that include LEAN and AGILE. However, the...

Compliance is fundamentally about reducing stakeholder risk: risk to quality, risk to safety, risk to the environment, and ultimately...

GRC is an acronym used to describe three functions: governance, risk, and compliance. The use of GRC originated from the management...

There might be some who read my posts who are also Doctor Who fans and get the reference to bow ties being cool. However, even if you...

The purpose given for companies is often stated as making profit. However, companies can exist for a greater purpose. They can exist to...

One of the challenges companies face when addressing compliance is its dynamic nature – compliance is never at rest. Even when you decide...

When my children were younger we would regularly go on road trips to visit family. Five minutes after leaving the house they would start...

Compliance can either be a "necessary evil" or a "necessary good". The path you choose will determine: whether you are reactive or...

Like other sectors, health care also requires innovation. Current models are based on a reactive and transactional approach to how health...

Harvard Business School's Michael E. Porter introduced the concept of a value chain in his book, " Competitive Advantage: Creating and...

Companies often consider compliance as a "necessary evil" rather than a "necessary good." They sometimes feel they are forced to comply...

It is easy to be sympathetic with those developing digital technologies that are frustrated with the relatively slow adoption of digital...

Collecting evidence is an important aspect in providing assurance of compliance. This evidence often comes in the form of data and plenty...

The answer is yes and you have been for some time. Nudging is broadly used today in many domains including governments to addresses...

Someone once asked the question, "why do cars have brakes?" The answer given was, "so they can go fast!" What brakes do for cars is what...

The Hoshin Kanri method is a popular LEAN approach used to align strategy with outcomes. It uses what is called an X-Matrix that...

"Pipeline process management includes determination of needs throughout the pipeline life-cycle, provision of sufficient human and...

More companies are becoming aware that they are too reactive when it comes to compliance. In my previous blog, I discussed four misuses...

Audits were first adopted by financial institutions to identify and prevent fraud. Their focus was to test the integrity of accounting...