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How to Define Compliance Goals

Properly defining and setting goals is critical to mission success including the success of environmental, safety, security, quality,...

Sustainable Development and Environmental Stewardship - Part 1

This week we launched our “Learn with Me” program were we take a course together. The course we decided to start with is Sustainable...

Modernize Your Compliance With ISO37301

Some may be aware of an obscure but important guideline called ISO 19600 “Compliance Management System” which was introduced in 2014....

Compliance Under Uncertainty Is Slowing You Down

When life is uncertain things are unclear, you don’t know what to expect, and you react to things when they happen. So you walk slowly,...

Towards an Environmental-First Assurance Framework - Part 2

In a previous post I introduced the scaffolding for a compliance assurance program that is capable of meeting the challenges of an...

Towards an Environmental-First Assurance Framework

To meet the challenges of environment-first future organizations will need to establish modern compliance systems to assure environmental...

Fighting Dragons using LEAN

In past presentations I have spoken on the topic of risk which of course meant we also talked about dragons. Dragons, metaphorically...

Integrity (doing what you say) is a measure of uncertainty.

Saying what you will do and doing what you say is essential for organizations where staying between the lines is critical to mission...

Measures without Measures is a Waste

When it comes to risk & compliance it is important to identify, collect, and monitor data of all kinds. However, what data should be...

A Case For Lean Compliance

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

Are You Effectively Managing the Impacts of Regulatory Change?

Organizations today face frequent and increasing regulatory changes across multiple jurisdictions, domains, and categories. It is these...

Are You Ready For an Environment-First Future?

Those that have been following us will know that compliance needs to be more than just checking boxes and passing audits. This is true...

Why Didn’t Risk and Compliance Programs Change During the Pandemic?

In a recent risk and compliance survey it was reported that the pandemic did not significantly disrupt risk and compliance programs...

You Cannot Transfer Risk

I once worked for a company that had multiple programs to address concerns such as: process safety, occupational safety, loss prevention,...

Assurance is an OUTCOME not an ACTIVITY

Assurance is not an activity that compliance does or something that can be inspected into a business. It is an outcome that is created...

Book Of The Month - Pursuing Enterprise Outcomes

Maximizing Business Value and Improving Strategy for Organizations and Teams All executives and senior management responsible for...

Is Your Motivation Holding You Back?

One of factors that hold companies back from improving their compliance is ambivalence; having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas...

Book Of The Month - Fundamentals of Risk Management

First of all, I believe that those working in risk management should: Understand what risk is and why contending with risk is important...

Are Your Risk & Compliance Programs Effective?

More than 75% of companies never measure the effectiveness of their risk & compliance programs. As a result they don't now if their...

Stakeholder Trust: A New Destination for Risk and Compliance

Stakeholder obligations are promises made to those who have put their trust in your business, your products and in the services you...

Is Compliance Risk Reducible?

The primary purpose of risk management is to handle the possible effects of uncertainty against specified objectives. This handling...

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...

The Most Important Risk Control

Change can be and often is a significant source of risk for organizations. That's why managing risk resulting from change is one of the...

Does Compliance Need an Incident Management System?

With the emergence of the COIVID-19 pandemic many are working remotely with minimal on-site presence. This has put a strain on existing...