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Why we need Compliance Excellence

Continuous Improvement (CI) is an essential part of operational excellence to increase the performance of operational processes used in...

Is your Scorecard Balanced?

Every plan, business, or endeavour happens in the presence of uncertainty. That is why your value chain needs to operate between the...

If Opportunity Doesn't Knock, Build a Door

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door – Milton Berle There is ample evidence that employees do not just wait for life to happen to...

The Digital Depot of Transformation

Digital Transformation – The Home Depot of Computing Walking into a building construction store like Home Depot can be overwhelming....

Balanced Scorecard for Growth

Balanced scorecards help companies track performance. In today's marketplace characterized by digital disruption you need to make sure...

Crossing the ethical chasm of data - a compliance perspective

"Compliance, in many ways, is about doing the right thing at the right time in the right way. Collecting evidentiary material is an...

5 Questions You Must Answer to Improve Your Compliance

The goal of a compliance program is to improve the level of compliance of an organization. This differs from the goal of a compliance...

Are you Safe?

It is often when new recruits are hired that although they are trained on the new processes and procedures (which takes time) they will...

Compliance Management Office (CMO) - The office of YES not NO

The role of compliance should be to help organizations ensure that outcomes are achieved through proper governance and the management of...

Confessions of a QA Manager

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author's...

Why is focusing on non-conformance missing the point?

Focusing on non-conformance is the first level of compliance. This involves meeting the prescriptive part of a regulation or industry...

Emergent Uncertainty

We expect that as systems improve that the certainty of meeting objectives increases. Instead, what often happens is that systems become...

Time to Upgrade your Navigational System

A compass helps you to stay on course as you head towards your destination provided the world is flat. However, a compass can never...

Is Compliance a Waste?

The value stream is where value is created but also waste which erodes the value of the products and services we are delivering. At a...

Integrated Regulatory and Compliance Taxonomy

To effectively meet compliance obligations, it is essential to differentiate regulatory and compliance demand according to their designs....

Risk-based Thinking – Quieting our Lizard Brain

Identifying risks and reacting to problems when they occur uses our "Lizard Brain" which is fast and needed for a fight and flight...

Digital Transformation - Exploiting the Power of Digital Technology

Over the last several decades companies have invested in paper-on-glass solutions as part of their digital progression. However, what...

Ideal Compliance

This is the perfect time of year to evaluate your compliance programs and make adjustments so that you achieve your objectives. However,...

Automating Responsibilities

Process automation tends to only focus on managing responsibilities that are involved in the completion of activity. As a result many...

Continuous Improvement Objectives

Companies of all sizes need: Processes to repeatedly execute steps in the creation of value Systems to ensure the consistent following of...

Interview with the Founder

The following questions were asked in an interview with Raimund Laqua, Founder and Chief Compliance Engineer at Lean Compliance. 1. What...

The Problem With Safety

Recently, I spoke with a safety expert who has worked for several decades in the safety industry. During this time he provided training,...

What Is Your MOC Maturity Index?

Change can be (and often is) a significant source of new risk. As a result, many companies have implemented the basics when it comes to...

To Succeed You Must Aim - The Higher You Aim The Better The Outcome

"We must make decisions, here and now, even though the best means and the best goals can never be discerned with certainty. An aim, an...