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Governance: Today’s Solutions Go Underutilized

By Dick Weisinger

GRC refers to an organization’s global approach to Governance, Risk Management and Compliance.  But GRC is much more than this relatively simple definition.  Paul Proctor, analyst at Gartner writes that, “when it comes to GRC technologies we have to define

Compliance: Challenges Increase but Budgets are Often Underfunded

By Dick Weisinger

Corporate ethics and compliance continue to be under close scrutiny across all businesses.  Compliance is particularly important to businesses that operate in many different geographies and need to comply with different local and regional regulations and rules. Keeping tabs on

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

Sarbanes-Oxley: After Ten Years Still Too Early to Pass Judgement?

By Dick Weisinger

To regulate, or not?  July 30th marks the ten years anniversary of Sarbanes-Oxley.  Given a ten year retrospective, one would think that there would be some sort of general agreement about whether the law has been successful or not.  But

Regulatory Compliance: Staff Stretched with Too Much to Do in Too Little Time

By Dick Weisinger

Increased responsibilities and increasing complexity in compliance-related regulations is stretching the efforts of compliance professionals.  There’s too much to do and too little time.  A recent report from Thomson Reuters Governance, Risk & Compliance finds that compliance professionals must make time