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In today’s rapidly changing business landscape, agility is crucial for effective governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC). As technology evolves and regulations shift, businesses must adapt quickly to maintain compliance and mitigate risks. Incorporating agile methodologies into GRC processes empowers organizations to stay ahead of changes, proactively address challenges, and sustain a competitive edge.

Consider a multinational corporation facing unexpected regulatory changes in a key ma

The idea of self-organization arose as a result of the limitations and inefficiency of traditional hierarchical organizations. 

Organizations have come to understand the need for a more flexible and adaptable method to leverage the collaborative intelligence and creativity of their employees.

Self-organization is a decentralized organizational structure in which decision-making authority is distributed among teams and individuals.  Through self-organization, teams are better able to adapt to and

In the current era, which is driven by Technology and Innovation, companies can only thrive if they are quick, flexible, and capable of learning and adapting quickly.

Establishing approaches that offer flexibility and agility to a team or organization is essential for businesses to succeed in the current business climate.

Organizations are now aware of this and have included Agile methodology into their Operations in order to respond swiftly to environments that undergo rapid change.  The followi

Data Governance is a set of practices that outline the roles and accountabilities related to data and support the organization’s Business Model by generating and consuming data.  It’s all about overseeing the accessibility, practicality, reliability and safety of enterprise data.

Data Governance is guided by in-house data standards and guidelines to monitor data usage.  The process safeguards data uniformity, dependability, and fair use.  The success of a Data Governance initiative should be me

Agile is a robust approach to value creation.  More and more organizations are adopting Agile Software Development approach.

Becoming Agile is imperative to meet and exceed customer expectations and emerging business trends.  Implementing the Agile approach to Software Development leverages significant benefits, including:

• Rapid design and development of new product and service offerings
• Revolutionizing processes
• Managing talent
• Reforming organizations

However, Agile alone is not enough.  Agile Transf

Accelerated pace of technological disruption has forced organizations to change.  It has triggered leaders to think of the ways they must adopt to survive in these challenging times.

Organizations are confronting this scenario by embracing digital technologies.  Traditionally, the focus of the organizations in these Transformation initiatives has remained on speed of change.  To get the most out of their initiatives, they are making drastic changes, to include:

• Creating Agile Teams
• Introducing Mobi

I don’t know if you have noticed, but I have been blogging about measurement, data, and statistics for the past 19 weeks. All to defeat quantifornication – the act of pulling numbers out of thin air for decision making. Numbers that are seemingly reliable but are not.

This week, Tuesday 10th November at 15:00hrs AEDT, I am presenting with my colleague Dr Andrew Pratley. Our presentation is Statistics 101 Applied to Controls – How to test and measure control resilience. Our presentation is part of

People mostly don’t like to be restrained. We also don’t like some constraints but we like others. For example, we like choice when buying but we don’t like too many choices.

Restraints on the other hand are an attack on our freedom.

Take seat belts for example. They were first invented the century before last! The modern retractable 3-point seat belt was invented in the 1950s. However, seat belt wearing was not compulsory and it took government legislation, regulation and enforcement to get more

Businesses are getting increasingly complex and so are customers’ expectations. Digital organizations are digitizing their critical Customer Journeys at scale to outperform competition. These organizations are using Digitization to create streamlined journeys, which result in more agile IT units, quick delivery of new products, and improved Customer Experiences and Engagement.

But before embarking on digitization and streamlining Customer Journeys, organizations need to transform their products,

It has been my pleasure to work with William G. Ferrell, CIO of Ferrell Capital Management to produce a new online course "From Asset Allocation to Risk Allocation".  This course provides valuable insights into a new paradigm for managing investments - based on dynamically monitoring statistics related to Risk, rather than simply creating a diversified portfolio and hoping for the best.  Bill uses the analogy that this is like using Doppler Radar rather than the Farmer's Almanac to predict the w