More on Useful Compliance Dashboards

Last month I wrote a post about what should be included in a chief compliance officer’s dashboard—that is, which metrics convey the most useful information that helps CCO decision-making. The column was heavily circulated on LinkedIn and I received great ideas from compliance professionals, so today we’re going to have a follow-up based on those…

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Recommended Reading for Big Data & GRC

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Yes, technology moves fast, but sometimes you come across an old chestnut of guidance about tech that still applies today. That happened to me as I stumbled across a collection of essays about Big Data that offer a bundle of insight about how to use Big Data and cloud computing for better GRC management. The…

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What Goes on a Compliance Dashboard?

The email arrived earlier this week from my friend the Vendor. He and his team are working on a proposal for a client, he told me: a dashboard application, driven by Big Data analytics, that would sit on the desktop of a chief compliance officer or general counsel. So if that dashboard were going to…

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Finding Parallels in SOX Compliance and ERM

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My phone rang earlier this week, and at the other end of the line was my compliance officer contact in higher education. “Matt,” she said, “I’m looking for GRC software that can help with the university’s risk management program. We started with a database in Microsoft Access and want something that can really handle enterprise…

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Assessing the TCO of Your GRC Tech Project

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Implementing GRC technology is probably one of the least pleasant tasks compliance officers have to do. I have literally had one compliance officer call me to complain, “We were using Vendor A, and they stunk, so we’re trying Vendor B,” followed by another compliance officer who said, “We were using Vendor B, and they stunk,…

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