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Big Data: Challenged by Complex Compliance Requirements

By Dick Weisinger

Just 4 percent of organizations say that they are fully prepared to effectively manage the governance and privacy of Big Data, according to a global survey by ISACA. Jeff Spivey, ISACA international vice president, said that “deep concerns about privacy…

Mobile Computing: Strong Correlation Between High Productivity and Strong Mobile Strategies

By Dick Weisinger

Organizations that deploy mobile tend to be organizations that show the most marked improvements in productivity, according to a report by IBM.  Organizations with strong mobile strategies tend to excel in the areas of analytics, speed, integration and security. Findings from…

Ethics and Compliance: Culture Trumps Compliance

By Dick Weisinger

A decade after business scandals like Enron and Worldcom, have businesses become any more ethical? Over the last decade many businesses have bulked up on the implementation of Ethics and Compliance (E&C) programs as a way to outwardly demonstrate that they…

Supply Chain: Manufacturers Begin Reversing Supply-Chain Strategies from Off-Shore to Near-Shore

By Dick Weisinger

Near-shoring is a logistics strategy of keeping product manufacturing operations close to or within the country where the product will be sold.  It represents a reversal of thinking after years of shifting manufacturing and assembly operations into countries with low…

Health Care: Slow Road to Implementing Security Controls

By Dick Weisinger

Tripwire/Ponemon recently surveyed 1320 health care IT staff and management members about risk-based security management in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. 70 percent of health care organizations said that it’s very difficult to communicate upward from departments and line of businesses to…