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Principles, Practices, & Insights


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


Motivations
Decision makers today are often faced with making decisions that cross multiple dimensions and where uncertainty and risk are present....
Raimund Laqua
3 min read


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...
Raimund Laqua
1 min read


Confessions of a QA Manager
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author's...
Raimund Laqua
3 min read


To Succeed You Must Aim - The Higher You Aim The Better The Outcome
"We must make decisions, here and now, even though the best means and the best goals can never be discerned with certainty. An aim, an...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


Playing the Compliance Game
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...
Raimund Laqua
1 min read


If There Is Care You Will Find Quality
Recently I spoke with a retired CEO of a successful semiconductor manufacturer who said to me when I asked him about quality, "if there...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


Proactive GRC
GRC is an acronym used to describe three functions: governance, risk, and compliance. The use of GRC originated from the management...
Raimund Laqua
4 min read


The Human Side of Compliance
The purpose given for companies is often stated as making profit. However, companies can exist for a greater purpose. They can exist to...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


What Will People Be Doing 20 Years from Now?
It is common nowadays to come across articles that claim that robots and AI will take over people's jobs. Some might even argue that this...
Raimund Laqua
4 min read


Tyrannical Compliance
Companies often consider compliance as a "necessary evil" rather than a "necessary good." They sometimes feel they are forced to comply...
Raimund Laqua
4 min read


Crossing The Ethical Chasm of Data Mining
Collecting evidence is an important aspect in providing assurance of compliance. This evidence often comes in the form of data and plenty...
Raimund Laqua
5 min read


Are You Being Nudged Into Compliance?
The answer is yes and you have been for some time. Nudging is broadly used today in many domains including governments to addresses...
Raimund Laqua
5 min read


Compliance Helps Companies Stay Within The Lines
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...
Raimund Laqua
5 min read


Ethical Compliance
Technology is advancing faster and further than our ability to keep up with the ethical implications. This applies also to the systems using
Raimund Laqua
7 min read


Problem with Risk Scores
Risk scores are commonly used to support risk-based decisions and are usually derived from a semi-quantitative analysis of the underlying...
Raimund Laqua
4 min read
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