Already today I have had three inquiries from organizations discussing their policy management strategy and the appropriate solutions to address their enterprise policy management and training needs for a holistic approach to policy management. Here are some thoughts on how to build a policy management strategy from the recent GRC 20/20 research report, Strategy Perspective:…

In business, change is inevitable. The compliance landscape is also constantly evolving. Agile compliance ensures businesses move with these changes. Business today is dynamic. It is changing minute-by-minute and second-by-second. Employees, processes, technology, transactions, interactions, even business relationships are in a continuous state of movement. At the same time, the regulatory and risk environment is…

Dynamic, Disrupted & Distributed Business Requires Policies Gone are the years of simplicity in business operations. Exponential growth and change in risks, regulations, globalization, distributed operations, competitive velocity, employees, partners, technology, and business data encumbers organizations of all sizes. Keeping business strategy, performance, uncertainty, complexity, and change in sync is a significant challenge for boards…

I have been a remote and hybrid worker for twenty-five years. It is has been and remains my professional life. I work out of my home office (though I do have a rental office space I can use for when I need seclusion). It takes a lot of foresight to manage the risks as I…

Why Every Organization Should be Focusing on ESG I recently wrote an article for Aravo’s new publication, Risk & Resilience. Their inaugural issue focused around the important topic of ESG, and is jampacked with great thought leadership content from a variety of experts and perspectives. I invite you to read the article I included below, but…

Yes, you read that correctly. Anyone that knows me knows that I am not inclined to use profanity casually. The reality is that this term, clusterf***, is a technical term. The term has its roots stemming from the Vietnam War, perhaps earlier. It defines a situation where there is a lot of top-down strategy (high-level…

Successful policy management requires the organization to provide an integrated strategy, process, information, and technology architecture to consistently govern policies across the organization. The goal is to give comprehensive, straightforward insight into policy management to identify, analyze, manage, and monitor policies in the context of operations, processes, transactions, and roles. It requires the ability to…

As Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stated . . . “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” Data is critical to risk management, and the more objective and quantitative the data is, the more value risk provides…

Last week I looked at James Bond 007 and Risk Situational Awareness where we explored how organizations need to be like James Bond and have full situational awareness of risk and uncertainty to objectives. This week we keep on the fictional hero theme with a look at Dr. Strange who is the representative of the…