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, safety, environmental and ethics & compliance. ), it is possible to gain a better understanding of the following: Cost of compliance and non-compliance How and to what degree compliance affects risk Value of compliance (cost avoidance, increased trust that always keep you in compliance Incrementally and continuously improve your compliance Make compliance Monitor in real-time the status and your ability to stay in compliance Audit outcomes of your compliance

This is why many companies view compliance, particularly in the form of inspection, as a form of waste Specifically, compliance adds to waiting, unnecessary movements, and to inefficient processes. But is this the best way to think about compliance – as a waste? Meeting compliance expectations creates legitimacy, trust and ultimately customer loyalty. When companies consider compliance as a necessary evil they tend to use mostly inspections and audits

“We need to move beyond compliance.” I used to think that moving beyond compliance was the answer. When we say, “we need to move beyond compliance” where exactly do we need to move to? However, what this means is that: We don’t need to move beyond compliance. We need to catch up to where compliance now is. This does require going beyond “basic compliance” – adhering to legal requirements – towards “total compliance

Many organizations begin meeting compliance obligations using Compliance 1 practices. Compliance is added "on top" of what is already happening. While this is how most start it is not the way compliance should continue. We call this Compliance 2 which compared with Compliance 1 is analogous to the difference between total The internal audit function still has a role under Compliance 2.

The next step in establishing risk treatments is to understand the nature of the compliance risk which In some compliance domains this is called preventable risk. This begs the question of why not treat all compliance risk as irreducible which by-the-way many do. A company's margin is significantly and negatively impacted by the cost of realized reducible compliance

What about Compliance? When it comes to compliance, training is a big thing. In fact, training for many organizations is seen as the dominate means to achieve compliance apart from Receiving training about compliance while important is ineffective without practicing the skills needed to achieve compliance and that has more to do with keeping promises. You could say (and I do) that the practice of promise keeping is the true work of compliance.

Operational Compliance Programs are the vehicles to deliver compliance value – better compliance outcomes compliance outcomes, fostering a culture where compliance is not seen as a hindrance but as an enabler Embracing change allows compliance programs to anticipate potential disruptions, minimize compliance is to regulate compliance systems and processes to achieve risk and compliance performance targets. Summary: Operational Compliance Programs steer organizations towards compliance outcomes as well as

While these design principles makes sense for IT solutions, they are not what's needed for compliance Instead, compliance needs to achieve a tighter coupling and greater transparency with the value chain What Compliance Needs from IT Compliance needs an integrative approach with the value chain not just This also applies to the tools an technologies that are used to support compliance. Negotiating the cultural and architectural differences between compliance and IT is critical for compliance

Agile and Lean Startup are examples of system-thinking used in software development but also compliance The Proactive Certainty Program™ learn and use systems-thinking to reach operational and effective compliance

Historically compliance is considered as a means to keep risk at bay. This places compliance programs along side of the value chain with risk reduction as the goal. In a sense, both risk & compliance suffer from too many check boxes and not enough action. However, compliance here does not mean check boxes. That is why we propose using the labels Certainty & Compliance rather than Risk & Compliance.

Increasingly standards and regulatory bodies are promoting a holistic approach to compliance. However, many companies still implement compliance programs using an element-by-element approach that occupational safety, regulatory compliance, environment, and so on. In fact, that's the purpose behind compliance programs. new holistic compliance strategies when they are predominately organized in hierarchies.

understand what your obligations are from which you can then measure effectiveness, performance, and compliance Whether you view compliance as a necessary evil or a necessary good you can still benefit from effective compliance. Consider joining The Proactive Certainty Program™ to take your compliance to the next level.