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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...


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


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...


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...


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


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


The Regulatory Tsunami
In recent years many in the compliance industry have observed a shift in regulation from prescriptive to performance and outcome-based...


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


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


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