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Compliance resiliency is important to maintain compliance in response to changes to business or business climate. For organizations to...

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

After years under the tutelage of prescriptive rules and audits it is no wonder that the question of what and how to improve compliance...

The focus on value-based outcomes has become a dominant approach in the health care sector over the last few decades. It has also made...

Organizations of all shapes and sizes utilize systems to ensure that the right work gets done at the right time in the right way. In fact...

According to Albert Einstein: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. And yet, that is...

Audits have been used for many years to confirm the integrity of financial statements and that proper accounting procedures have been...

The practice of continuous improvement is gaining traction within an across all industries. It goes by different names such as:...

The topic of what is essential is on the minds of many individuals, organizations, and governments certainly with respect to navigating...

NC State University each year publishes their research on the state of risk oversight. The latest version is available reflecting input...

A principle that is easily forgotten is that to change outcomes you need to change your capabilities. Michael Porter's value chain...

Companies need effective risk & compliance systems to ensure they stay between the lines during normal operations and even more so during...

Adopting a Safety Management System (SMS) has typically required significant resources, large teams, and expensive technologies and...

The risk and compliance problem: Companies are too reactive. Prescriptive policies, standards and regulations do not adequately protect...

Many companies will be familiar with the terms Total Quality Management (TQM), or Total Production System (TPS). They began initially to...

Safety performance is improved when organizations take a comprehensive and systemic view of their safety efforts. This requires different...

Many companies run out of time, money, and motivation before results are achieved and outcomes are improved. This is often the case when...

Many companies apply linear thinking and steps when attempting to improve their risk and compliance systems. As a result they never reach...

Are your systems operational and capable to meet all your performance and outcome-based obligations this year? Companies that take...

Are your risk and compliance controls capable to keep you between lines? The purpose of risk and compliance is to keep companies...

Does your approach to planning adequately address performance and outcome-based obligations?

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

System dynamics (SD) according to the System Dynamics Society  is a computer aided approach to policy analysis and design.  It applies ...

Over the years I have observed that there is one reason that stands above all others as to why compliance programs fail and why they are...