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Earlier this year (May 2020) the International Standards Organization (ISO) published their legal risk management guidelines, ISO...

According to Albert Einstein: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. And yet, that is...

Audits have been used for many years to confirm the integrity of financial statements and that proper accounting procedures have been...

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

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...

Focusing on non-conformance is the first level of compliance. This involves meeting the prescriptive part of a regulation or industry...

To effectively meet compliance obligations, it is essential to differentiate regulatory and compliance demand according to their designs....

The purpose of a quality program is fundamentally to improve the quality of something. However, with today's focus on quality systems and...

Like other sectors, health care also requires innovation. Current models are based on a reactive and transactional approach to how health...

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...

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...

Technology is advancing faster and further than our ability to keep up with the ethical implications. This applies also to the systems using

Risk scores are commonly used to support risk-based decisions and are usually derived from a semi-quantitative analysis of the underlying...

Many companies are in the midst of adopting changes introduced by ISO 9001:2015. One of the most significant of these, is incorporating...

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

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...

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

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

The need to comply with regulations and standards is a necessary part of every business. In fact, companies need to comply with several...