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Business is complex. Gone are the years of simplicity in business operations. Exponential growth and change in regulations, globalization, distributed operations, changing processes, competitive velocity, business relationships, disruptive technology, legacy technology, and business data encumbers organizations of all sizes. Business … Continue reading →
Abraham Lincoln was in high fashion last year. Two movies, including one about him being a vampire hunter, and a bunch of awards, that was a pretty good year. Of course Lincoln works well for Hollywood, it’s a recognizable character, … Continue reading →
GRC (Governance, Risk Management, & Compliance) is not new to business. The acronym itself is over a decade old, but organizations have always had some approach to governance, risk management, and compliance. An acronym did not give us GRC it … Continue reading →
Risk-Driven Audit, Risk-Driven Design, Risk-Driven Project Management… Being “risk-driven” is expected from many functions or activities of the organization. Functions that used to be regarded as mainly “performance-driven” now have to explicitly combine performance and control. Obviously, this can be … Continue reading →
Governance Risk & Compliance and Enterprise Risk Management have become such buzzwords in the past decade that their definition and content have been diluted into a vague, generally accepted but endlessly discussed, concept. This concept gravitates around the obsession to be compliant with industry … Continue reading →
Business Architecture matters, but what is it exactly? Architects are indispensable for two major reasons: ensuring a structure of some sort matches its purpose and usage, but also ensuring it can be transformed, should the purpose have to evolve. The … Continue reading →
Risk Assessment is a primary task for risk managers in any organization. Its goal is to attribute a theoretical value, a risk level to each risk they face by assessing potential impact and likelihood of the risk materializing. This assessment … Continue reading →
In recent years, organizations have pushed risk management and business support functions to the forefront in their efforts to improve company operations and performance. The finance department was typically the first to adopt new practices in process and quality improvement, … Continue reading →
Any commercial company aims at generating value. This is the only way they can survive, by generating enough revenue to compensate their costs and turn out a profit. This principle is the heart of Macroeconomics theory through the monitoring of … Continue reading →
The pressure on CIOs to reduce IT costs has been increasing dramatically over the past 5 years. IT departments sometimes find themselves lacking resources after having presumably explored all possible ways to “do more with less.” This is particularly true … Continue reading →
If you have stumbled upon this site, chances are you have an interest in Governance, in Operations, in ways to make business better. You have ideas, opinions on those issues, and you are welcome to share them here. The recent … Continue reading →