Compliance

Email is just a one piece of a more complex communications landscape. You can't ignore the electronically stored information issues that are growing along with adoption and use of various communications tools in our business.

Necessary evil. Pain in the rear. The management penalty. Performance reviews are called many things, few of them positive. What's up with that?? One of the most important things we do as senior managers is setting, and managing to, performance expectations.

The second in a series of 12 articles from LRN: Enforcement authorities hold the bar high when describing compliance expectations and are assigning special importance to areas like risk assessments, testing and internationalized compliance infrastructures.

Employing available technology to improve the delivery and navigability of disclosure and accessible and comprehensible disclosure could be just a double-click away – it almost seems too good to be true.

Is the compliance community spending enough time looking at the dark side? Instead of defining and enforcing "normal" behavior, how about identifying the pathologies of bad behavior -- and its warning signs...”

A major headache for retailers, payment processors and financial institutions transitioning to the new PCI DSS 3.0 standard is communicating some 100 new requirements to their work-force.

Unlike other jurisdictions, such as the U.S., which require a plaintiff to show that common issues within the class predominate over individual issues, Australian plaintiffs are required only to show at least one substantial common issue of law or fact between members of the class.

When trust is violated the damage can be far reaching. The old axiom, “it takes a lifetime to build trust and a second to ruin it” is an apt warning. Trillions of paper profits have been lost because of a loss of trust!

No matter the product, service or industry, mission or corporate philosophy, nearly every business is bottom line-driven. Every so often, a new technology emerges that radically changes the productivity landscape and industry’s related profitability potential in kind.

Many researchers refer to organizational culture as one of the key factors that lead to collective corruption. Richard Bistrong and Jamie-Lee Campbell discuss...

Continuing with my obsession to define an “effective” ethics and compliance program, there are certain requirements that if not present, you know you are looking at an ethics and compliance program that is not “effective,” almost by definition.

Globalization, regulation, competition -- these make today’s workplace more complicated than ever. This causes professionals to flounder as they try to perform at a high level and achieve career mobility.