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A Community of Practice

We are launching something new! Elevating Compliance Community of Practice The purpose of this initiative is to bring together compliance...

Why I Conduct Team Meetings on Mondays

As a young engineer in the 1990s, I took on the role of IT Manager, my first management position. Now, for those that can remember, IT at...

Alignment Conversations - A Dialog Towards Program Success

When it comes to compliance a lack of clarity and alignment often leads to program failure. This manifests in many ways that include...

Cleaning Up Your Documents Before The Auditor Comes Over

When it comes to audits there is a popular meme that goes something like this: Before the audit: documents out of conformance During the...

Don’t Fly with Only One Wing

Can you have a balanced scorecard without compliance? When it comes to navigating organizations many use a balanced scorecard (BSC) to...

Zones of Compliance

Which Zone Are You Operating In? Regulatory designs of which there are four primary types spanning micro-means to macro ends, demand...

Training Users To Be Unethical

The decline of moral integrity Every time we skip past an EULA (end-user license agreement) and just click the checkbox we give up...

Are AI-Enhanced KPIs Smarter?

Using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to regulate and drive operational functions is table stakes for effective organizations and for...

Don’t Confuse Computer Programs with Compliance Programs

Many organizations identify the need for a program to help them meet all their compliance obligations. They will then procure a computer...

We Don’t Live in Models; We Live in Reality

With all the talk about artificial intelligence it’s easy to get caught up in a world of machine models, digital twins, and virtual...

Smarter Than Human AI - Still a Long Way to Go?

The rapidly advancing field of artificial intelligence, particularly large language models (LLMs), is constantly pushing the boundaries...

Risk Blindness: A Failure in Risk Perception

Imagine you're attending a meeting to discuss potential dangers during a company restructuring. You, and everyone else present,...

AI in PSM: A Double-Edged Sword for Process Safety Management

Process safety management (PSM) stands as a vital defence against hazards in high-risk industries. Yet, even the most robust systems...

What is Operational Compliance?

When people hear the phrase, “Operational Compliance” they often think of it in the same way as “Operational Risk” - a siloed function to...

Prioritizing CI Projects – Mission Impossible?

Continuous improvement is needed across all business functions including those that are responsible for safety, security, sustainability,...

The Need For Digital Twin Safety

Digital twins are virtual counterparts of physical entities that merge real-time data from sensors and IoT devices with sophisticated...

Two Obligations You Cannot Ignore

When it comes to compliance there are two primary obligations that you cannot ignore: stay between the lines and stay ahead of risk....

Why IT is Failing Compliance

In the IT industry where I spent much of my early career, a significant amount of resources are dedicated to integrating components...

Not All Holes Are Hazards

Not all holes are hazards, not all risks matter The risks that matter are between you and your objective.

The Greatest AI Risk – AI Agency

When it comes to Artificial Intelligence what worries many is not so much how smart it might become but instead what it might do with the...

Golden Thread of Assurance for Compliance

An important role of compliance is keeping organizations operating between the lines and ahead of risk. And when it comes to risk many...

Is Your Compliance Regulating Fast Enough?

Modern compliance must regulate at faster rates to keep an organization always on-side and operating between acceptable safety, security,...

Protect your Value Chain from AI Risk

This year will mark the end of unregulated use of AI for many organizations. This has already happened in the insurance sector (State of...

Controls without Systems are not Controls

Controls without systems are not controls, they are only processes. In many compliance domains meeting obligations is seen as a controls...