GPRC for Risk, Compliance & Internal Control System
Orchestrating Integrity, Performance, and Foresight from the Bridge of the Enterprise
The strength of the ship lies not only in its hull or engines, but in how every system — navigation, engineering, and life support — operates in perfect synchronization under a unified command.
In the same way, an enterprise’s strength depends on the orchestration of its systems of governance, risk, compliance, and performance; working not in isolation, but as a synchronized command structure.
The OCEG definition of GRC provides the foundation:
- GRC is the capability to reliably achieve objectives (governance), address uncertainty (risk management), and act with integrity (compliance).
It all begins with objectives. Objectives define the mission of the enterprise—why it exists and what it seeks to achieve. These objectives set the context for risk, which addresses the uncertainty that could impact those objectives, and for compliance, which defines the boundaries of integrity within which those objectives must be pursued.
Governance is therefore not a static function of oversight; it is the continuous process of defining objectives, aligning performance, managing risk, and ensuring integrity.
In the modern organization, this orchestration occurs not through forms, workflows, and siloed modules, but through a dynamic architecture — what I define as GRC 7.0 – GRC Orchestrate: an intelligent, integrated ecosystem built on digital twins, agentic AI, and business-integrated processes that together create a living model of the enterprise . . .
[The rest of this blog can be read on the Corporater blog, where GRC 20/20’s Michael Rasmussen is a Guest Blogger]