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Knowledge and Insights for Compliance Success
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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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 &...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The Dilution of Compliance
Dilution can be defined as "the process or action of making something less strong or valuable." Over the years I have experienced this...
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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...
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Operational Readiness
Are your systems operational and capable to meet all your performance and outcome-based obligations this year? Companies that take...
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Project Success in the Presence of Change
Some say change is the only real constant in the universe – the one thing you can count on is that everything changes. However, there is...
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How Structures Create Cultures
Professor Andrew Hopkins shares his insights on how organizational structure, communication, and habitual practices advance safety...
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Lord of the Risks – The Two Towers: Productivity and Compliance
Those who have been following me might be aware of my presentations on demystifying risk entitled, Lord of The Risks – Defeating the...
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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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Is your Scorecard Balanced?
Every plan, business, or endeavour happens in the presence of uncertainty. That is why your value chain needs to operate between the...
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If Opportunity Doesn't Knock, Build a Door
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door – Milton Berle There is ample evidence that employees do not just wait for life to happen to...
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The Digital Depot of Transformation
Digital Transformation – The Home Depot of Computing Walking into a building construction store like Home Depot can be overwhelming....
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Integrated Regulatory and Compliance Taxonomy
To effectively meet compliance obligations, it is essential to differentiate regulatory and compliance demand according to their designs....
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Ideal Compliance
This is the perfect time of year to evaluate your compliance programs and make adjustments so that you achieve your objectives. However,...
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The Problem With Safety
Recently, I spoke with a safety expert who has worked for several decades in the safety industry. During this time he provided training,...
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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...
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Be Certain About Change
A critical process used in safety, quality, environment, and regulatory programs is the process that manages change. The reason for this...
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How effective is your compliance program at buying down risk?
Compliance is fundamentally about reducing stakeholder risk: risk to quality, risk to safety, risk to the environment, and ultimately...
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Proactive GRC
GRC is an acronym used to describe three functions: governance, risk, and compliance. The use of GRC originated from the management...
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Moving Beyond the Conformance Zone
One of the challenges companies face when addressing compliance is its dynamic nature – compliance is never at rest. Even when you decide...
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The Qualitative Nature of Quality
The purpose of a quality program is fundamentally to improve the quality of something. However, with today's focus on quality systems and...
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