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Compliance: The Friend You Never Knew You Needed

Innovation and creativity are often thought of as the cornerstones of success in business. Organizations are continually pushing...

Breaking the Illusion: The Case Against Anthropomorphizing AI Systems

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly prevalent in our lives, and as we interact more and more with these systems, it's...

Are You Ready To Surrender Your Decision-Making To Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

This may sound like a far-fetched idea, but it's closer to reality than you might think. The question is, should we be so eager to give...

Humility - An Urgent Necessity for Compliance

In the world of compliance, humility is a critical trait that is often overlooked. The lean principle of being humble is just as...

Applying Lean 5S to Compliance

Compliance is an essential aspect of any business, ensuring that organizations operate within the legal and regulatory framework set by...

Why We Need More Engineers In Compliance

As a professional engineer working in the compliance field, I would like draw attention to the importance of the engineering method in...

What Curling Can Teach Us About Risk

Or.. Why curlers make the best risk managers. Risk management is an essential aspect of every business, organization, or even our...

Compliance Technologies – Part 1

Navigating the constantly evolving landscape of compliance can be a challenging task for organizations, as it involves adhering to...

Who Decides?

Historically, the responsibility of decision-making has predominantly fallen upon humans. However, with the rapid evolution of artificial...

Here Be Dragons

Compliance leaders know that when it comes to risk there is more than one type of dragon to contend with. Effective compliance is about...

Can You Trust AI?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most exciting and transformative technologies of our time. From healthcare to transportation,...

AI Governance, Assurance, and Safety

As AI becomes more prevalent and sophisticated, it is being used in critical applications, such as healthcare, transportation, finance,...

Should Risk Management Be Connected With Internal Audit?

This week we explore a question that was posed in reference to IIA’s 3 line model “should risk management be connected more closely with...

Do we need Professional Engineers?

As T.S. Eliot wrote: “It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good”. Professional engineers are those...

3 Ways to Strengthen Your Defences

There are 3 ways that we talk about strengthening defences: Reliability Resiliency Anti-fragility Reliability has to do we preventing...

Why you need to govern your use of AI

Each organization will and should determine how they will govern the use of AI and the risks associated from using it. AI and its cousin...

ESG Reports - A Significant Source of Obligations

In recent months while reviewing several ESG reports I noticed that these reports have evolved from simply reporting on Environmental,...

Compliance Training versus Compliance Practice

Those that have watched Ted Lasso on Apple TV+ will know that the meaning of words we use can be different specifically when spoken in...

Is Compliance A Zero-Sum Game?

Back in the day I would visit bookstores in the places that I travelled particularly for work. Browsing the book isles was one way you...

Courage to Communicate

In my first year of engineering I was given this advice. You can be the smartest engineer but if you cannot articulate your ideas and...

Will Your Next Compliance Expert be AI?

In this post we take a look at a new AI technology called ChatGPT from OpenAI. It can answer many of your questions, code for you, and...

Top 10 Compliance Priorities for 2023

As the year comes to a close we identified 10 compliance priorities for 2023 to keep you between the lines and ahead of risk. You can...

A Management Standard for ESG Obligations

You do not have to wait for an ESG management standard before you start managing your ESG obligations. Obligations associated with...

The Value of a Program and Coach

Getting into shape is not very different from getting into compliance. Sometimes (most often) you need the help of a program and a coach...