Effectiveness is the holy grail of Compliance Management. Whether regulatory or ERM, ensuring business is conducted as intended is the base requirement to optimising your organization’s performance.
Let’s face it, business spends its money where it will deliver the best return, i.e. to shareholders, so the key to increasing the compliance budget is to measure compliance as a factor of performance not as a safety net. Continue reading
There are all manner of problems (being an optimist, I rather use the term “challenge”) that we face each and every day.
Most of these challenges are simple enough: what’s for dinner this eve; is there traffic on the highway that is going to impede my progress; do I have any clean underwear, and so on. Some challenges are more complex; how are we going to meet our production schedule; my primary vendor has failed and I need to bring a replacement on-line; which automobile or house should I purchase and what are the financing options, etc… Continue reading
Study shows that non-compliance problems cost nearly three times as much as doing it properly from the start.
Many companies view compliance programs as a headache — something they’re required to invest time and money in, but which produces little. A benchmark report from the United States shows that the opposite is the case. Investing in strong compliance programs saves money in the long run. Continue reading
They’re selling features we haven’t even designed yet!—is a common complaint from engineers about sales and marketing. Requirements are a moving target, thanks to marketing. They’re not well-defined. They’re growing and changing, yet deadlines and schedules are firm.
While engineering is pointing fingers at marketing, marketing is pointing back. Engineers aren’t getting the importance of cost, schedule, and features. To marketing, it seems that engineers care about creating technically superior solutions, regardless of cost or schedule. Continue reading
The benefits of SharePoint as a content management system and information portal tool are indisputable. With great search functionality and user definable portal pages SharePoint is now the leading Content Management solution chosen by most IT departments.
But what if your business demands strict document controls protocols, not just because it’s good practice but life depends on it? Unfortunately there is generally a poor appreciation by IT departments of the importance of document control in mission critical business. Continue reading