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Lean Compliance Principles, Practices, & Insights


Catching Up to Compliance
“We need to move beyond compliance.” I used to think that moving beyond compliance was the answer. Many others did too. It seemed like...


Isn't Lean Compliance the same as Lean Six Sigma?
I've been asked this question several times, so I thought I'd share my answer here: The short answer is no. The longer answer is that...


Three Conditions for Responsible and Safe AI Practice
Many organizations are embracing AI to advance their goals. However, ensuring the public's well-being requires AI practices to meet three...


How Your Business's Digital Twin Empowers Real-Time Compliance
Many of you may be familiar with the concept of digital twins in futuristic factories, but what if I told you your business is already...


Everything an Organization Does is Compliance
I realize this statement may be controversial or even provocative to some, but I kindly ask that you hear me out. For many organizations,...


The Critical Role of Professional Engineers in Canada's AI Landscape
Rapid advancements in AI technology present a double-edged sword: exciting opportunities alongside significant risks. While Canada is a...


The Need for LEAN AI Regulation
There's a growing urgency to establish regulations for artificial intelligence (AI). Public concerns about potential harm and human...


How Is Your Compliance Managing the Shift?
In the last few decades there has been a paradigm shift towards risk-based regulators and regulation. In the traditional model regulators...


Beyond Compliance: Building Trust Through Commitment
In my years working across high-risk, highly regulated industries like medical device, pharmaceuticals, and energy, compliance used to be...


The AI Gold Rush: When Customers Become Collateral Damage in the Search for Data
The tech landscape these days is reminiscent of a gold rush, with companies scrambling for a new treasure: customer data. But in this...


We Don't Protect What We Don't Value
Business success is often measured by a single metric: profit. However, in today's economic climate, organizations are increasingly...


A Little About Myself
Talking about oneself does not come easily to some of us. This can get in the way of building trust with the people we work with. But how...


Audits Don’t Deliver Compliance
Audit is not the function that fulfills obligations. It’s the function that verifies you are keeping your commitments associated with...


Is AI Sustainable?
In this article we will explore sustainability and how it relates to AI technologies. To get there we will first consider AI Safety and...


Dear Business Owner
This post is written as a letter in response to typical inquiries from organizations looking to make improvements to their compliance....


Refactoring Compliance For a Leaner, Smaller, and More Effective Program
Compliance often becomes a labyrinth of obligations, commitments, controls, audits, processes, and many other activities and artifacts...


Is Your Compliance Map Outdated?
When it comes to operationalizing obligations, compliance must understand how operations and organizational structures work together to...


Creating A Business Case to Improve Compliance
The following outline should help you build a persuasive business case for improving compliance to protect and ensure total value for...


Compliance with Benefits
Compliance is often seen as a necessary evil – a set of rules and regulations that stifle innovation and bog down operations. But what...


Our Obsession with Processes – Too busy building, not enough living.
A critique is going around that process management needs to be more holistic. I couldn’t agree more. Unfortunately, for many this means...


Complianceland - Compliance Without Sufficient Dimensions
Compliance 1 life in a Compliance 2 world Edwin A. Abbott published a book in 1883 called, “Flatland" where he explores a two-...


Five Principles of Compliance Program Success
Following these principles has and will increase the probability of compliance success across all domains (safety, security,...


A Community of Practice
We are launching something new! Elevating Compliance Community of Practice The purpose of this initiative is to bring together compliance...


Why I Conduct Team Meetings on Mondays
As a young engineer in the 1990s, I took on the role of IT Manager, my first management position. Now, for those that can remember, IT at...
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