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Principles, Practices, & Insights


Is Compliance Risk Reducible?
The primary purpose of risk management is to handle the possible effects of uncertainty against specified objectives. This handling...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


Breaking Free From The Reactive Compliance Trap
When companies decide to improve their compliance they soon realize that their good intentions are often thwarted by their own...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


The Most Important Risk Control
Change can be and often is a significant source of risk for organizations. That's why managing risk resulting from change is one of the...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


Does Compliance Need an Incident Management System?
With the emergence of the COIVID-19 pandemic many are working remotely with minimal on-site presence. This has put a strain on existing...
Raimund Laqua
5 min read


Anatomy of Compliance Risk
Everything happens in the presence of uncertainty, and this uncertainty creates the opportunity for risk.
Raimund Laqua
1 min read


Are You Neglecting Your Compliance Boundary?
When it comes to compliance there is a boundary that exists between what is inside an organization and what is outside. This compliance...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


Taming the Dragon of Uncertainty
When it comes to business, life, and of course compliance, there are dragons that come across our path that cannot or should not be...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


A New Year and A New Framework for Risk Management
Over the last several years what is traditionally called risk management has undergone significant criticism from professionals,...
Raimund Laqua
5 min read


Obligation’s Hierarchy of Needs
Not all obligations are the same or require the same capabilities or approaches to satisfy. Knowing the differences can help you better...
Raimund Laqua
4 min read


Surprise me now, surprise me later, but never say I am not surprised.
When it comes to risk & compliance no one wants to be surprised. That’s why organizations put in place controls of various kinds to avoid...
Raimund Laqua
1 min read


How to Make Compliance Soar
Compliance is often considered as a hindrance more than a help. Many organizations believe that they might do better if they were less...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


The Taxonomy of an Obligation
When it comes to improving compliance it is important to know not only what your obligations are but also how each obligation has been...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


Finding Good Dragons
Compliance at its core is about contending with risk. For the most part this has taken the form of addressing the negative side to...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


Are Your Risk Measures Valid?
In this article we take a look at the nature of risk reduction controls through the lens of barrier analysis. This is a common practice...
Raimund Laqua
5 min read


The Cost of Obligation Debt
The notion of debt or more specifically technical debt has proven to be a helpful metaphor when discussing financial costs with respect...
Raimund Laqua
3 min read


How Do We Manage Cyber Safety - Part 3
This blog post continues our series on Cyber Safety where we have explored various standards, frameworks and guidelines to address...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


An Objective View of Obligations
ISO 19600 and 37301 define compliance as the outcome of meeting a company's obligations. These obligations arise from such things as...
Raimund Laqua
5 min read


How Do We Manage Cyber Safety - Part 2
This blog post is a continuation in our series on Cyber Safety. In this article we explore several guidelines, standards, and frameworks...
Raimund Laqua
3 min read


Manage Legal Risk with ISO 31022:2020
Earlier this year (May 2020) the International Standards Organization (ISO) published their legal risk management guidelines, ISO...
Raimund Laqua
3 min read


Seeing Compliance as a Whole
When it comes to compliance many believe that it all comes down to integrity. When it comes to integrity, according to Dr. Henry Cloud,...
Raimund Laqua
3 min read


How Do We Manage Cyber Safety?
In this blog article we continue to explore the topic of cyber security or more rightly cyber safety. Cyber security mostly refers to...
Raimund Laqua
3 min read


Catastrophic Harm
In 2020 we saw Lebanon's government in response to the explosion in Beirut on August 4th killing more than 200 people. This explosion...
Raimund Laqua
3 min read


Organizational Hazards
In this article we will look at a different kind of hazard. Not a physical hazard such as a toxic chemical or flammable gas which are...
Raimund Laqua
4 min read


The Compliance Dance – Closing gaps and raising standards
When it comes to meeting revenue, margins, and overall business objectives many organizations establish performance-based systems and...
Raimund Laqua
4 min read
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