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Missing the Boat on IT and Technology
When you look at surveys of CEOs, such as the one by PwC in 2014, McKinsey in 2013 and IBM in 2012, they reflect what we should all know: that the innovative use of technology is one of, if not the primary, enabler of business innovation these days.
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5 Questions Boards Should Ask About Risk Management
Risk management exists in a dynamic world and should have the agility required to address the changing demands of business. The insightful article "Five Questions Directors Should be Asking in 2014 " gets to the point quickly and its few questions serve as a good guidepost. 1.
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What's Riskier: Ignoring or Implementing Big Data?
Information security practitioners, risk professionals and executives might be blinded by the potential risks of implementing big data and thereby miss out on the value it can provide an organization. ISACA recently released a paper on Big Data which weighs the two sides and makes a clear decision which is
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Reflections on Strategic Risks: What's in a Name?
Surveys say people are paying more attention to so-called “strategic risk.” The latest from Deloitte, called Risk Angles, says: Strategic risk is not new; however, in a world where risks are hastened along by business trends and technological innovations, strategic risk management has taken on new urgency.
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Reflections on IT Risk, Technology, Risk Management, Internal Audit
All the studies show an increasing pace of change in and around technology. It’s not just that we run the back-office with enterprise software, it is also invading the front office and the products and services offered by organizations around the world.
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Accenture Reports Good News for Risk Management but Misses a Key Point
Accenture’s 2013 Global Risk Management Study starts with a great subtitle: “Risk management for an era of greater uncertainty.
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Is Your Company Too Risk Averse About Big Data
It is easy for governance, risk and audit practitioners to worry about privacy and other risks to the extent that they become a negative influence on their company. Their fear can inhibit an organization from seizing the opportunities presented by what is called “Big Data”.
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Are Organizations Too Complex to Govern Effectively?
When you look at many of the organizational disasters of recent years (such as the Deepwater Horizon explosion, fire and oil spill that embroiled BP, Halliburton and Transocean in billions of dollars in cost even before reputational damage and business disruption), people ask where top management and the board were.
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Should Internal Audit Be Responsible for Detecting Fraud?
Internal auditors love fraud: detecting it and investigating it. The majority of boards and top management expect internal auditors to dedicate a fair portion of their time to auditing for fraud and performing investigations as needed.
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Qualifying a Director as a Risk Expert
Boards have generally identified experience and insight into risk management as areas where they need to improve.
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The Path to Excellence for Internal Audit
If internal audit is to remain relevant, it needs to move beyond the services currently performed to provide assurance to the main stakeholders. Two Perspectives Earlier this year, I wrote about PwC’s 2013 State of the Internal Audit Profession. Protiviti has added insights through their 2013 Internal Audit Capabilities and Needs Survey, which identified these
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Why I Worry About Uncertainty First, Then About Risk
Uncertainty is inherent in any plan. But there are actions that can be taken to increase the likelihood of positive outcomes and to reduce risk.
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Board Oversight of IT and Technology
I admit to criticizing my “alma mater” PwC for much of their thought "leadership" over the last years. Today, I come to praise PwC, not to bury it.
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A Leap Forward for Risk and Compliance
Recent improvements in in-memory and big data analytics technology spell benefits for those working in risk and compliance. I recently had the honor of being the opening keynote speaker at the Compliance Week West conference in Palo Alto.
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