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Compliance Principles, Practices, & Insights


What Corporate Compliance Still Hasn't Learned
While recently listening to a podcast about leveraging AI to extract insights from complaints, it highlighted something that's long...
Raimund Laqua
3 min read


From Telescope to Steering Wheel: Understanding Governance
As a compliance engineer who's spent years helping organizations streamline their governance, risk and compliance programs, I've noticed...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


Building a Better Compliance Program: The Metrics That Actually Matter
As a compliance engineer with 30+ years of experience, I've learned that not all metrics are created equal. Today, I want to share a...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


Don't Make This Costly Mistake With Your Compliance Controls
As a compliance professional, you know that navigating the web of security standards, industry regulations, and business obligations is...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


Third-Party AI Risk: Are You Covered?
While your organization may be committed to practising safe and responsible AI, what about your third-party partners? From suppliers and...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


Implementing an AI Compliance Program: A Lean Startup Approach
AI compliance demands a fundamentally new mindset. Many organizations fall into one of two limiting perspectives: either viewing...
Raimund Laqua
3 min read


How To Get The Most From Your ISO Management System
Getting the most value from your ISO Management System requires more than just maintaining certification. By taking a strategic approach,...
Raimund Laqua
4 min read


Turn Your Compliance Silos Into Compliance Pillars
Lean TCM (Total Compliance Management) is a strategic framework that transforms compliance management through four fundamental adaptive...
Raimund Laqua
1 min read


Holistic Risk Management: A Modern Necessity for Compliance
When it comes to compliance success, you need to pay attention to all the risk – the threats and the opportunities. This requires...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


Toasters on Trial: The Slippery Slope of Crediting AI for Discoveries
In recent days, a thought-provoking statement was made suggesting that artificial intelligence (AI) should receive recognition for...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


Uncertainty: A Ruthless Master
In risk and compliance, we often assess the likelihood of significant events that could harm employees or damage facilities. Imagine...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


What is Compliance?
Compliance is an end, a means, a measure, and a value. ➡️ As an “end” it is the outcome of meeting all your obligations – better safety,...
Raimund Laqua
1 min read


Reverse Engineering Success: The Inversion Approach to Compliance
When it comes to decision-making, a common approach is to work forwards—to start from a problem and try to figure out the steps toward a...
Raimund Laqua
4 min read


A Structured Approach to Continuous Improvement in Compliance Management Using Four Problem Types
Are you looking for a structured way to enhance your compliance management system? Art Smalley’s foundational book provides a framework...
Raimund Laqua
3 min read


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...
Raimund Laqua
1 min read


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


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 violations and breaches, minimizing identity thefts, enhancing integrity, and ultimately fostering greater stakeholder trust. Realizing these benefits requires compliance to function as more than just the sum of its parts. Unfortunately, many organizations focus solely on individual components rather than the whole system – they see the tree
Raimund Laqua
8 min read


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


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...
Raimund Laqua
3 min read


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...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


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...
Raimund Laqua
3 min read


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...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


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


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...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read
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