Regulatory metrics tell you what happened. They won't tell you if you can meet your outcome and performance-based obligations going forward.

For that, you need operational metrics — measures engineered into your compliance program that tell you whether you're capable of delivering on what you've committed to.

Most compliance programs don't have them.

In support of Canada's National Engineering Month (Engineers Canada), I'm opening up my monthly Lean Compliance Huddle to anyone who wants to see what happens when you apply engineering principles to compliance.

I'll walk through how to engineer your compliance program to use a full-stack metrics framework — connecting measures of adherence, conformance, performance, effectiveness, and integrity across the Operational Compliance Model — designed to help you deliver real value from your compliance efforts.

This isn't dashboards and scorecards. It's systems thinking applied to the question most compliance leaders can't answer: can our program actually deliver, or…