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Two Kinds of Compliance Resiliency
Compliance resiliency is important to maintain compliance in response to changes to business or business climate. For organizations to...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


The Problem with Assessments
Assessments are the fuel that power both step-wise and continuous improvement engines and this is no different when it comes to risk &...
Raimund Laqua
5 min read


Compliance Needs A New Mindset
After years under the tutelage of prescriptive rules and audits it is no wonder that the question of what and how to improve compliance...
Raimund Laqua
1 min read


Outcome-based Specifications
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...
Raimund Laqua
6 min read


Agile Compliance
Organizations of all shapes and sizes utilize systems to ensure that the right work gets done at the right time in the right way. In fact...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


Better Compliance Done a Better Way
According to Albert Einstein: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. And yet, that is...
Raimund Laqua
3 min read


Are You Auditing What Really Matters?
Audits have been used for many years to confirm the integrity of financial statements and that proper accounting procedures have been...
Raimund Laqua
4 min read


Problem-solving in Highly-regulated, High-risk Industries
The practice of continuous improvement is gaining traction within an across all industries. It goes by different names such as:...
Raimund Laqua
4 min read


Essential Properties For A Managed Pipeline Safety Program
The topic of what is essential is on the minds of many individuals, organizations, and governments certainly with respect to navigating...
Raimund Laqua
9 min read


2020 The State of Risk Oversight
NC State University each year publishes their research on the state of risk oversight. The latest version is available reflecting input...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


Capabilities Driven Business Canvas
A principle that is easily forgotten is that to change outcomes you need to change your capabilities. Michael Porter's value chain...
Raimund Laqua
1 min read


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...
Raimund Laqua
1 min read


A Safety Management System for Everyone
Adopting a Safety Management System (SMS) has typically required significant resources, large teams, and expensive technologies and...
Raimund Laqua
5 min read


The Risk and Compliance Problem
The risk and compliance problem: Companies are too reactive. Prescriptive policies, standards and regulations do not adequately protect...
Raimund Laqua
1 min read


Total Safety Management
Many companies will be familiar with the terms Total Quality Management (TQM), or Total Production System (TPS). They began initially to...
Raimund Laqua
3 min read


Compliance Now Requires a Design
Safety performance is improved when organizations take a comprehensive and systemic view of their safety efforts. This requires different...
Raimund Laqua
3 min read


A Better Way to Implement Purposeful Systems
Many companies run out of time, money, and motivation before results are achieved and outcomes are improved. This is often the case when...
Raimund Laqua
1 min read


System Improvement Requires Non-linear Thinking and Actions
Many companies apply linear thinking and steps when attempting to improve their risk and compliance systems. As a result they never reach...
Raimund Laqua
1 min read


Operational Readiness
Are your systems operational and capable to meet all your performance and outcome-based obligations this year? Companies that take...
Raimund Laqua
1 min read


Cybernetic Control
Are your risk and compliance controls capable to keep you between lines? The purpose of risk and compliance is to keep companies...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


Proactive Planning
Does your approach to planning adequately address performance and outcome-based obligations?
Raimund Laqua
1 min read


The Regulatory Tsunami
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
Raimund Laqua
7 min read


System Dynamics
System dynamics (SD) according to the System Dynamics Society is a computer aided approach to policy analysis and design. It applies ...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


Why you will never have an effective compliance program
Over the years I have observed that there is one reason that stands above all others as to why compliance programs fail and why they are...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read
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