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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

A proactive and integrative approach to improve compliance effectiveness. Over the years working for companies in highly-regulated...

When companies decide to improve their compliance they soon realize that their good intentions are often thwarted by their own...

Not all obligations are the same or require the same capabilities or approaches to satisfy. Knowing the differences can help you better...

Assessments are the fuel that power both step-wise and continuous improvement engines and this is no different when it comes to risk &...

Dilution can be defined as "the process or action of making something less strong or valuable." Over the years I have experienced this...

In recent years many in the compliance industry have observed a shift in regulation from prescriptive to performance and outcome-based designs. What we are seeing is only the beginning of a trickle down effect emerging from regulatory reform over the last few decades across regulatory jurisdictions and across the world. During this time an increasing number of regulatory bodies have started to modernized the function of regulation, its processes and practices, and how regulat

I have spent most of my career building information and management systems in support of engineering, compliance, and mission critical...

Harvard Business School's Michael E. Porter introduced the concept of a value chain in his book, " Competitive Advantage: Creating and...

Technology is advancing faster and further than our ability to keep up with the ethical implications. This applies also to the systems using