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Compliance Strategy: Protecting the Opportunity to Succeed
It today’s marketplace protecting the opportunity to succeed is paramount. For businesses to thrive, they must not only create value but...
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Audits vs. Assessments: Understanding the Key Differences
When it comes to compliance, we often hear about audits and assessments. While these terms are sometimes used interchangeably, they serve...
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From Human to Machine: The Evolving Nature of Work in the Digital Age
Across the world we're witnessing a profound transformation: the continual mechanization of human work, now accelerated by the...
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Beyond the Checklist: Measuring Compliance Quality
When evaluating compliance, traditional approaches use a binary system of "Yes" or "No" which have long been the standard. However, this...
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Navigating AI Compliance with Integrity
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is on a trajectory to revolutionize various industries, from healthcare to finance. Its ability to analyze...
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The Triple Threat of Effective Risk Management: Ensuring, Insuring, and Assuring
Risk and compliance practitioners often find themselves navigating the nuances in terminology that can sometimes blur the lines between...
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Redefining Quality Assurance and Control
Quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) are two complementary but distinct concepts that have evolved over time in the world of...
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The Paradox of Change: Why Resistance is Inevitable
We often hear the mantra "change is inevitable." This axiom has become so ingrained in our collective consciousness that we rarely pause...
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Compliance as a Value Guardrail
Organizations today face increasing pressure to deliver value while navigating a myriad of regulations, stakeholder expectations, and...
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Book Of The Month - The Unaccountable Machine
A Review of Dan Davies' Exploration of Algorithmic Decision-Making Dan Davies' The Unaccountable Machine is a compelling exploration of...
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Model Convergence: The Erosion of Intellectual Diversity in AI
As artificial intelligence models strive for greater accuracy, an unexpected phenomenon is emerging: the convergence of responses across...
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How is Your Compliance Vision?
Having worked in compliance for several decades, I've witnessed firsthand the transformative power of having a clear compliance vision in...
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The Power of Attention to Improve Compliance
Have you ever noticed how quickly things start to shape up when senior management turn their gaze to a particular corner of the company?...
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Latent Vulnerabilities and System Crashes: A Deeper Look at CrowdStrike's RCA
CrowdStrike recently published the results of a technical root cause analysis (RCA) stemming from the July 19th, 2024 incident that...
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Beyond Balance: Sustainability as a Legacy of Sacrifice and Investment
Sustainability is often defined as fulfilling current needs without jeopardizing future generations' ability to do the same. In simpler...
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The Effects of a Divided Brain on Risk and Compliance
This week I came across a LinkedIn post that suggested that CISOs (Chief Information and Security Officers) often find themselves at a...
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Delivering on the Promise: Compliance Through Performance
Organizations face a complex landscape of regulatory, ethical, and stakeholder expectations. These obligations, both explicit and...
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Ethical Decision Making Involving AI
In the domain of Corporate Ethics and Compliance, one hammer is used to establish ethical behaviour – training. In many cases, this...
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A Safety Model for AI Systems
As a framework, I thought Nancy Leveson’s Hierarchical Safety Model which incorporates Rasmussen’s risk ladder offers the right level of...
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Using Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM) to Improve Compliance
When it comes to compliance alignment we need to have answers to the following two questions: 1. How do compliance pillars (programs)...
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Catching Up to Compliance
“We need to move beyond compliance.” I used to think that moving beyond compliance was the answer. Many others did too. It seemed like...
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Isn't Lean Compliance the same as Lean Six Sigma?
I've been asked this question several times, so I thought I'd share my answer here: The short answer is no. The longer answer is that...
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Three Conditions for Responsible and Safe AI Practice
Many organizations are embracing AI to advance their goals. However, ensuring the public's well-being requires AI practices to meet three...
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How Your Business's Digital Twin Empowers Real-Time Compliance
Many of you may be familiar with the concept of digital twins in futuristic factories, but what if I told you your business is already...
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