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How to Support Your CCO
A Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) is responsible for ensuring that an organization complies with relevant laws, regulations and to a...
Raimund Laqua
3 min read


Between the Lines: The Need for Active Compliance and Personal Autonomy
The question of whether we comply to stay between the lines or stay between the lines to comply is a thought-provoking one. It speaks to...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


AI Assistants - Threat or Opportunity?
AI Assistants - Blessing or Curse? The rise of Generative AI has taken the world by storm, and AI assistants are popping up all over the...
Raimund Laqua
3 min read


Abandoning Risk Matrices: A Critical Step for Risk Management
The world is changing, and with it, so are the risks that businesses and organizations face. Over the last year, there has been much...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


Compliance: The Friend You Never Knew You Needed
Innovation and creativity are often thought of as the cornerstones of success in business. Organizations are continually pushing...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


Breaking the Illusion: The Case Against Anthropomorphizing AI Systems
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly prevalent in our lives, and as we interact more and more with these systems, it's...
Raimund Laqua
3 min read


Are You Ready To Surrender Your Decision-Making To Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
This may sound like a far-fetched idea, but it's closer to reality than you might think. The question is, should we be so eager to give...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


Humility - An Urgent Necessity for Compliance
In the world of compliance, humility is a critical trait that is often overlooked. The lean principle of being humble is just as...
Raimund Laqua
3 min read


Applying Lean 5S to Compliance
Compliance is an essential aspect of any business, ensuring that organizations operate within the legal and regulatory framework set by...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


Why We Need More Engineers In Compliance
As a professional engineer working in the compliance field, I would like draw attention to the importance of the engineering method in...
Raimund Laqua
5 min read


What Curling Can Teach Us About Risk
Or.. Why curlers make the best risk managers. Curling Can Teach Us About Risk Risk management is an essential aspect of every business,...
Raimund Laqua
3 min read


Compliance Technologies – Part 1
Navigating the constantly evolving landscape of compliance can be a challenging task for organizations, as it involves adhering to...
Raimund Laqua
6 min read


Who Decides?
Historically, the responsibility of decision-making has predominantly fallen upon humans. However, with the rapid evolution of artificial...
Raimund Laqua
6 min read


Here Be Dragons
Compliance leaders know that when it comes to risk there is more than one type of dragon to contend with. Effective compliance is about...
Raimund Laqua
1 min read


Can You Trust AI?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most exciting and transformative technologies of our time. From healthcare to transportation,...
Raimund Laqua
10 min read


AI Governance, Assurance, and Safety
AI Governance, Assurance, and Safety As AI becomes more prevalent and sophisticated, it is being used in critical applications, such as...
Raimund Laqua
6 min read


Should Risk Management Be Connected With Internal Audit?
This week we explore a question that was posed in reference to IIA’s 3 line model “should risk management be connected more closely with...
Raimund Laqua
3 min read


Do we need Professional Engineers?
As T.S. Eliot wrote: “It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good”. Professional engineers are those...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


3 Ways to Strengthen Your Defences
There are 3 ways that we talk about strengthening defences: Reliability Resiliency Anti-fragility Reliability has to do we preventing...
Raimund Laqua
1 min read


Why you need to govern your use of AI
Each organization will and should determine how they will govern the use of AI and the risks associated from using it. AI and its cousin...
Raimund Laqua
1 min read


ESG Reports - A Significant Source of Obligations
In recent months while reviewing several ESG reports I noticed that these reports have evolved from simply reporting on Environmental,...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


Compliance Training versus Compliance Practice
Those that have watched Ted Lasso on Apple TV+ will know that the meaning of words we use can be different specifically when spoken in...
Raimund Laqua
3 min read


Is Compliance A Zero-Sum Game?
Back in the day I would visit bookstores in the places that I travelled particularly for work. Browsing the book isles was one way you...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


Courage to Communicate
In my first year of engineering I was given this advice. You can be the smartest engineer but if you cannot articulate your ideas and...
Raimund Laqua
1 min read
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