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Lean Compliance was founded in 2017 to close the gap between what compliance programs promise and what they deliver. The methodology draws on three decades of designing compliance, risk management, and assurance programs for highly regulated, high-risk sectors — oil & gas, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, chemical processing, financial services, government, and municipalities.

As one of Ontario's first licensed digital engineers, Raimund brings engineering discipline to a field dominated by audit thinking and documentation. Assurance isn't inspected in after the fact — it's engineered in, by design. Every engagement is led personally by Raimund Laqua.

Raimund Laqua, P.Eng., PMP

Founder, Principal Consultant

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Lean Compliance Perspectives, Principles and Practices

Are We Building AI with Half a Mind?

Sunday AI Reflections A couple of years ago I wrote about Iain McGilchrist's work on the divided brain and what it might mean for risk and compliance. I argued that organizations need whole brain thinking, bringing together the parts of the business that protect against loss with the parts that pursue new opportunities. I have been returning to McGilchrist's work as I watch how organizations are approaching AI. What I see concerns me more now than it did then. I believe the

Raimund Laqua

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The Flight Recorder Problem

Why governed records will not make AI safe Every commercial aircraft carries a flight data recorder. It is one of the most carefully governed records in any industry. Its design is certified, its contents are protected, and its chain of custody is controlled from the moment it is recovered. And yet, a flight recorder has never prevented a crash. That was never its purpose. The recorder helps us learn after something catastrophic has gone wrong. Keeping an aircraft safel

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Is AI Adoption Normalizing Risk?

Some things are best described as the absence, or privation, of something good. Normalization of deviance, drift to failure, unsafe conditions, and unsafe acts all take their meaning from a positive prior. We first define what it means to be safe. Integrity is a measure of how well that state is maintained, and any loss of integrity is what we call “unsafe.” The Challenger accident shows how this works. The solid rocket booster joints were designed so that the O-rings would n

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