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Lean Compliance Principles, Practices, & Insights


Proceed, but Proceed with Caution
When it comes to AI, many don’t want to hear about the risk. In fact, many go to great lengths to avoid the discussion. Some will go as...


AI Governance, Guardrails and Lampposts
At today's monthly "Elevate Compliance Webinar" participants learned strategies and methods for effectively governing artificial...


Compliance Operability Assessment Using Total Value Chain and Compliance Criticality Analysis
Why Is This Assessment Necessary? For compliance to be effective, it must generate desired outcomes. These outcomes may include reducing...


Can AI Rescue Your Project?
Project teams often find themselves caught in a cycle of constant execution, leaving little time for process improvement. This...


Compliance Strategy: Protecting the Opportunity to Succeed
It today’s marketplace protecting the opportunity to succeed is paramount. For businesses to thrive, they must not only create value but...


Audits vs. Assessments: Understanding the Key Differences
When it comes to compliance, we often hear about audits and assessments. While these terms are sometimes used interchangeably, they serve...


From Human to Machine: The Evolving Nature of Work in the Digital Age
Across the world we're witnessing a profound transformation: the continual mechanization of human work, now accelerated by the...


Beyond the Checklist: Measuring Compliance Quality
When evaluating compliance, traditional approaches use a binary system of "Yes" or "No" which have long been the standard. However, this...


Navigating AI Compliance with Integrity
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is on a trajectory to revolutionize various industries, from healthcare to finance. Its ability to analyze...


The Triple Threat of Effective Risk Management: Ensuring, Insuring, and Assuring
Risk and compliance practitioners often find themselves navigating the nuances in terminology that can sometimes blur the lines between...


Redefining Quality Assurance and Control
Quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) are two complementary but distinct concepts that have evolved over time in the world of...


The Paradox of Change: Why Resistance is Inevitable
We often hear the mantra "change is inevitable." This axiom has become so ingrained in our collective consciousness that we rarely pause...


Compliance as a Value Guardrail
Organizations today face increasing pressure to deliver value while navigating a myriad of regulations, stakeholder expectations, and...


Book Of The Month - The Unaccountable Machine
A Review of Dan Davies' Exploration of Algorithmic Decision-Making Dan Davies' The Unaccountable Machine is a compelling exploration of...


Model Convergence: The Erosion of Intellectual Diversity in AI
As artificial intelligence models strive for greater accuracy, an unexpected phenomenon is emerging: the convergence of responses across...


How is Your Compliance Vision?
Having worked in compliance for several decades, I've witnessed firsthand the transformative power of having a clear compliance vision in...


The Power of Attention to Improve Compliance
Have you ever noticed how quickly things start to shape up when senior management turn their gaze to a particular corner of the company?...


Latent Vulnerabilities and System Crashes: A Deeper Look at CrowdStrike's RCA
CrowdStrike recently published the results of a technical root cause analysis (RCA) stemming from the July 19th, 2024 incident that...


Beyond Balance: Sustainability as a Legacy of Sacrifice and Investment
Sustainability is often defined as fulfilling current needs without jeopardizing future generations' ability to do the same. In simpler...


The Effects of a Divided Brain on Risk and Compliance
This week I came across a LinkedIn post that suggested that CISOs (Chief Information and Security Officers) often find themselves at a...


Delivering on the Promise: Compliance Through Performance
Organizations face a complex landscape of regulatory, ethical, and stakeholder expectations. These obligations, both explicit and...


Ethical Decision Making Involving AI
In the domain of Corporate Ethics and Compliance, one hammer is used to establish ethical behaviour – training. In many cases, this...


A Safety Model for AI Systems
As a framework, I thought Nancy Leveson’s Hierarchical Safety Model which incorporates Rasmussen’s risk ladder offers the right level of...


Using Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM) to Improve Compliance
When it comes to compliance alignment we need to have answers to the following two questions: 1. How do compliance pillars (programs)...
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