With FCPA enforcement rising and 75 percent of foreign bribery schemes executed by third parties, outsourcing can create regulatory and reputational risks that should not be ignored.

Make a business case to your senior leadership to get the budget you need and prove the ROI…

A Message from Enrique R. Suarez to the Students of Entrepreneurship

The Technician, the Entrepreneur, and the Manager

In order to start and grow a business, a venture’s founder is required to wear three separate hats including…

SIX REASONS FIRMS CAN’T INNOVATE

Enrique Suarez Note: I often receive executive education…

Sorry, I meant cross culturalism. As in influencing across cultures without making the person from the other culture angry, as in cross.

Recently I was mentoring a client in a national business performance role. One of his challenges was his need to convince a staff member in China, who is Chinese, to…

Hi Team,

This is my first blog in the GRC, hence, wanted to start by introducing myself.

My name is Harinder Sandal, and I am into IT Advisory and consultant focusing on technologies like Cloud, Enterprise Security, IT Infrastructure and Migrations/Integrations (Data Center - On-Premises/Cloud). 

Security/Technology (Infrastructure, Application & Operations) Risk Management is one of the skills which I do in the Enterprise. As we have great audience…

marcus evans will host the 3^rd Edition Operational Risk Management and Organizational Transformation for Financial Institutions Conference on September 12-13, 2018 in New York, NY. This annual conference has been one of the most anticipated Operational Risk Management meetings in the industry. This year, we bring together Operational Risk Management & Enterprise Risk Management Professionals to discuss key fundamentals for achieving the utmost…

Leading alongside. That’s what advisers in organisations are essentially doing. You can’t dig it out of the ground, fly it, design it or decorate it for them. You can only lead them as best you can so as they make the best decisions.

Unfortunately, often due to expediency, we use our authority to get things…

After a hugely successful two days in 2017, Insurance Nexus are delighted to announce that our Insurance Analytics Canada Summit will be returning to Toronto in 2018, September 25-26, at the Westin Prince Hotel.

Written by insurance carriers, for insurance carriers,…

According to a brand-new survey from Insurance Nexus 94% of respondents agreed that AI is going to deeply transform the insurance industry.

The message is clear.  AI is going to hit insurance big time – so you need to ensure you’re prepared for the future. 

One way to do this is to check out our newly released “Canada's first insurance analytics and AI survey”, where we quizzed 250 of the brightest minds in insurance.  By reading it, you’ll get the…

Enrique Suarez Presenting:

OneBankAssure: Customer Intimacy…

My Priorities if I were the New President of the United States of America: Peace (Self-Knowledge), Dignity and Prosperity

By Enrique R.…

In my first book, DECIDE: How to manage the risk in your decision making, I made the statement “…in my experience, an acceptance of mediocrity and an acceptance that projects (and decision making) are difficult are the norm in the vast majority of organisations.”…

The Strategic Management Frameworks and the Delta Model: Putting Customers Before Products

The Dangers of the Conventional Definition of Strategy…

Buyer Centric Funnel Design: Why Do We Need Sales Process

By David Skok…

It’s here. Winning Conversations: How to turn red tape into blue ribbon. Plenty of blood, sweat but not an ounce of tears has gone into my second book. I loved writing it. I love the core message intertwined through it. You should and most definitely can show the revenue producers, the policy…

Chief risk officers and heads of operational risk responded to a survey held by Risk.net and identified their top risk concerns. Their number one concern was IT disruption, while their second highest concern was data compromise. Why is cybersecurity risk on everyone’s mind?

For one thing, technology is an inescapable reality of every business. Even the smallest of mom and pop shops have an…

Mollisvitaephobia is fear of soft skills.

Ok. You got me. I made it up by translating soft skills into Latin. Why? Because there is most definitely an ailment in organisations that needs fixing and it needs a name.

There is a bias towards technical training at the expense of soft skills…

Even if you have the best security on your computer network, you might have noticed that you still seem to get hacked…or worse. Ask Equifax. Why is this happening? It’s probably because a member of your staff has made it easy for cyber criminals to get inside. It’s really important that you find out who this person is, and keep in mind…it might be more than just one. And it may not even involve security technology.

Part of the problem here, is that employees who…

Many FIs are looking to SMB lending as a source of growth, but at the same time mindful of credit risk that can increase if the loans are made with hasty underwriting. Sageworks, a financial information company that offers portfolio risk software, was just awarded the Innovation Award for Business Lending due to the company's headway into automating SMB lending processes while offering to benchmark, global cash flow analysis and other functionalities that allow FIs to quickly and…