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

Cost reduction programs while sometimes necessary all too often end up removing value and expose companies to unnecessary risk. Deferring...

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

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...

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

"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...

Recent revisions to compliance standards and regulations have introduced changes to the way we think about and manage risk. You can look...

All too often companies find that they are only one accident, one explosion, one fatality, or one recall away from not only losing their...

Increasingly standards and regulatory bodies are promoting a holistic approach to compliance. However, many companies still implement...

Compliance is often viewed as a cost of doing business. However, instead of viewing compliance only as an expense and something to...

In a world of competing and overlapping compliance demands, siloed departments, and numerous stakeholders the role of an architect is...

Process modeling is necessary to design, implement, and improve compliance. Many of the techniques and approaches used today are based on...

One of the key misconceptions about LEAN is that its goal is to reduce the workforce. No wonder people might resist adopting it. However,...

It is common for companies these days to have several programs to manage both mandatory requirements and voluntary commitments in...

LEAN approaches have been used across many industries for decades with great success. However, there are some industries were using LEAN...

Compliance programs, systems, and processes are often used interchangeably when referring to improvements. However, there are important...

Changes to safety-critical positions in regulated industries must follow a process to manage risks associated with transitioning a new...

In a previous blog, I outlined 5 threats to compliance. In this blog, I will look at how to address them. At first glance, it may seem...

Meeting compliance is critical to those that work in highly regulated industries and specifically to those that are responsible for...

Business processes require information to produce the desired outcomes. This information comes in various forms and is used in a variety...

In a world that values specialists, individual workmanship and personal accountability the LEAN culture can seem foreign, threatening and...