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Manage Legal Risk with ISO 31022:2020
Earlier this year (May 2020) the International Standards Organization (ISO) published their legal risk management guidelines, ISO...
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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...
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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...
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The Regulatory Tsunami
In recent years many in the compliance industry have observed a shift in regulation from prescriptive to performance and outcome-based...
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A Burning Platform of Reactive Compliance
Do we now have a burning platform with respect to reactive compliance? On May 16 2018, a report was published following a review led by...
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Why is focusing on non-conformance missing the point?
Focusing on non-conformance is the first level of compliance. This involves meeting the prescriptive part of a regulation or industry...
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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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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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Leading Health Systems Innovation
Like other sectors, health care also requires innovation. Current models are based on a reactive and transactional approach to how health...
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Compliance Chain Analysis
Harvard Business School's Michael E. Porter introduced the concept of a value chain in his book, " Competitive Advantage: Creating and...
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Tyrannical Compliance
Companies often consider compliance as a "necessary evil" rather than a "necessary good." They sometimes feel they are forced to comply...
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Four Steps to Proactive Compliance
More companies are becoming aware that they are too reactive when it comes to compliance. In my previous blog, I discussed four misuses...
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Four Misuses of Audits
Audits were first adopted by financial institutions to identify and prevent fraud. Their focus was to test the integrity of accounting...
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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
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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...
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Risk-Based CAPA?
Many companies are in the midst of adopting changes introduced by ISO 9001:2015. One of the most significant of these, is incorporating...
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5 Ways Risk Management Has Changed
Recent revisions to compliance standards and regulations have introduced changes to the way we think about and manage risk. You can look...
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ISO 9001:2015 – More Than Re-writing Procedures
Every company currently certified for ISO 9001 will need to re-certify at some point in time. This is an opportunity to go beyond just...
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Why You Need a Compliance Architect
In a world of competing and overlapping compliance demands, siloed departments, and numerous stakeholders the role of an architect is...
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LEAN Paradox - Specialists versus Generalists
In a world that values specialists, individual workmanship and personal accountability the LEAN culture can seem foreign, threatening and...
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Do You Need A Different System For Each Regulation?
The need to comply with regulations and standards is a necessary part of every business. In fact, companies need to comply with several...
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