Reading Time: 3 minutesTraditional risk management techniques can treat risks in isolation and focus too much on traditionally insurable risks. These techniques work in some cases, but don&r&hell…Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes “Knowledge constantly makes itself obsolete with the result that today’s advanced knowledge is tomorrow’s ignorance”. One has to be on th… Read More

Reading Time: 3 minutes  While the cloud is an extremely hot topic for organizations worldwide, it is still a pretty broad concept that covers a plethora of services and delivery models… Read More

Reading Time: 5 minutes  The blockchain is one of the most genius inventions – by a person or group of people known by the pseudonym, Satoshi Nakamoto. It has now evolved into som… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  “Banks and financial Institutions have grown in size and complexity through acquisitions or through sheer internal growth and they realized that they cann… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  The most basic GRC components are provided by most of the GRC Vendors with their platforms that can be configured to fit different GRC solutions. Organizations… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Organizational success exceedingly relies upon the tools, methods and procedures they pursue. In an integrated environment, it has turned out to be exceedingly… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  The GRC solutions these days are made up of a wide range of enterprise level solutions that are web-based in nature. These are intelligent and intuitive as well… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Performing a google on GRC tooling will provide you with a wide variety of vendors. Many of the vendors provide a variety of what they call plug and play soluti… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  The ‘Energy and Utilities’ industry involves fuel extraction, refining and distribution. The industry is very widespread and is located across geogr… Read More

Reading Time: 3 minutes  GRC can be an effective tool and also complex to begin with for an organization. Where GRC has its own benefits, it also possesses its own set of challenges. In… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Compliance refers to rules, regulations laws and policies that an organization has to abide by. These compliance standards are very important and protect an org… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) are more entwined than ever before as previously it was managed as three different separate entities. They are now playin… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Vendor management involves selecting suitable vendors, sourcing pricing information, collecting quality details, evaluating amongst different vendors and mainta… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  “Compliance management is the process by which managers, plan, organize, control, and lead activities that ensure compliance with laws regulations & s… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  SaaS which is an abbreviation of Software as a service is one of the three main categories of cloud computing. Cloud computing also involves- Infrastructure as… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Surveys play a very important role in guiding an organization’s decision-making process. Surveys provide a bird’s eye view of any particular decisio… Read More

Reading Time: 3 minutes  In today’s world, Cloud technology is a trending buzzword in business environments. It provides exciting new opportunities for businesses to compete on a… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  GRC helps in each progression of the vendor management lifecycle in an alternate manner. The assistance ranges from better visualization of information and remi… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Choosing the right GRC platform for the organization can be the most critical point. These platforms change the way that the organization operates which is why… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  The governments, just like other organizations and institutions face numerous issues in their operations. The governments are very huge and maintaining complian… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  In an increasingly dynamic and globalized business environment, economies and enterprises are becoming steadily interrelated. eGRC stands for Enterprise Governa… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Preparing your organization for updated governance, risk and compliance systems GRC Implementation is basically an integrated collection of capabilities that he… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  “Disruptive technology has inherent risk, it’s about balancing this risk”. Many organizations are on the journey of digital transformation whi… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  The healthcare industry is one of the largest industries in the world. The industry has its own share of challenges and problems. The demand for better quality… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Return on investment (ROI) is a key performance indicator of any initiative taken by a company. Measuring the return on investment is extremely useful while mak… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Today’s world around us is rapidly-evolving, and to confront it we need to have a system in place to adapt to the changes and keep track of it. Change lea… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Workplace silos are characterized as “gatherings or offices inside an association that works in a vacuum with minimal practical access to different gather… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes Challenges faced by the automotive industry The automotive industry is growing at a healthy rate but is prone to many problems. Changing consumer preferences, ch… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  CFO of an organization can face failure in management reporting in two cases. Either the reports are long filled with only data with no insights to drive action… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  According to IDEO, Design thinking utilizes elements from the designer’s toolkit like empathy and experimentation to arrive at innovative solutions. By us… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Key performance indicators help evaluate the performance of the business or a particular individual or activity done by him/her. Key performance indicators (KPI… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  For JPMorgan Chase, a spreadsheet error played part in the $6 billion trading loss in 2012 in the “London Whale” affair. Every 9 out of 10 spreadshe… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  For businesses, the key focus is to deliver high-quality products to a large number of consumers. Very high emphasis is put on designing the products according… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Irrespective of the product or service, one major factor differentiating the great and failed ventures is the ability to adapt to the changing business environm… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Fuelled by internet, smartphones and advanced analytics; companies are looking to set global footprints across various countries at the same time. Businesses re… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Enterprise Risk Management has been gaining relevance in today’s time due to the dynamic nature of regulations and a competitive market environment. Risk… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Today, technology is driving a change movement in all walks of life, be it personal or professional. The way we live and work is revolutionizing and it is impor… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Do we really need human assistance to fly us miles of distance? From automated check-in kiosks now a prominence at airports to pilots actively using auto-pilot… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  With new technologies, business expansion and cost focus, the importance of vendor has increased dramatically in the past few years. Vendors play a vital role i… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Currently, the businesses around the world are facing a transition in the ways they manage the business. Initially, they were used to managing businesses from o… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Managing IT Risk is integral to any business these days. An overview understanding of IT risk enables organizations to improve network security, and compliance… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutesEvery business plans to go big. Big plans are made. But what makes those plans a success is the implementation. Corporate governance helps companies in implementing va… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  With the increasing complexity of the businesses, the number of policies and procedures are also becoming more complex. Fuelled by the requirement of policy man… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  The global regulatory environment is becoming more dynamic and complex as the pace of changing reforms in increasing. Organizations are faced with new regulator… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  According to a study by U.S. Small Business Administration, ““Redefining Small Business Success” which assesses the survival rate of busi… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Deadlines are used in the workplace so that businesses can maintain momentum and remain productive at a constant rate. Regardless of where we work or what we do… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Integrity means doing the right thing because it is the right thing to do. Integrity in a workplace means our actions are consistent with our words, we are trus… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Oxford Dictionary defines the term “risk” as a chance or possibility of danger, loss, injury or other. As simple as it sounds, risk is nothing but t… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Governance is not a separate activity but an inherent part of any organization. It refers to the processes by which organizations are operated, guided and held… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Rapid technological advancements have brought in changes in all sectors of business. All businesses are hurriedly reinventing their business models in order to… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  “The biggest risk a person can take is to do nothing” – Robert. T. Kiyosaki Given the dynamic environment that businesses nowadays have to ope… Read More

Reading Time: 3 minutes  Be it a strategic, functional or an operational unit in an organization, no aspect of a business is void of GRC potential risks. Moreover, risks pertains to eve… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR is going to strengthen and unify data protection within countries under EU and also monitors export of personal data… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutesGeneral Data Protection Regulation or GDPR is going to strengthen and unify data protection within countries under EU and also monitors export of personal data outside… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  There is a booming curiosity and concern about the impact of robotics and artificial intelligence on organizational structure and employment. There still a pers… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Corporate compliance requires adhering to policies, procedure, rules, regulations, laws, and standards which are established to protect your business, employees… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  With the eruption of new technological innovations companies are reframing the core of their business with huge investments in digital technologies and analysis… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  Compliance with regulations begins with defining your organizational policies while promoting them in the workplace and extracting positive efforts. The main ob… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  The risk related to noncompliance is a topic of discussion in today’s world where people are caught in the rat race for survival and tangled itself in the… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes  While we assess at great lengths how technology is changing the buying behavior of customers we often skip to analyze how customers actually buy technology. Thi… Read More

Reading Time: 3 minutes  Internal controls are methods put in place by a company to ensure the integrity of financial and accounting information, meet operational and profitability targ… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this growing age where sustainability has become a buzzword, a company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) is of utmost importance. Consumers place more v… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutesFor businesses, profit is a result of the price charged and cost incurred in delivering the product to the customer. In the present high competitive market, the price… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutesEvery organization is majorly made up of people, machines, land, money and time. These resources are the lifeline of your product if utilized well; you gain profits, c… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe blockchain is one of the most trending topics in both the technology sector and financial service sector. With the potential to revolutionize many business process… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe traditional way of reporting involved communicating in plain text with numbers where the focus was on covering all required related data and information. Owing to… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutesGRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) is the organization’s capability to ensure the achievement of its objectives reliably, mitigate the risks and act with inte… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutesAll the educational institutions, be it schools, colleges, universities etc. form the backbone of any economy or country. Without an effective and robust education sys… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter the financial crisis of 2008, the role of compliance departments became paramount. To safeguard the global economy against a repeat of the financial meltdown, go… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe product life cycle is the stages of a typical product from design to decline, a cycle divided into the four phases of introduction, growth, maturity, and decline… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe product life cycle is the stages of a typical product from design to decline, a cycle divided into the four phases of introduction, growth, maturity, and decline… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutesAccording to Gartner, Vendor management is a “discipline that enables organizations to control costs, drive service excellence and mitigate risks to gain in… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutesRunning a large business requires a large pool of resources and human skills. However, just investing in these assets don’t give the best results. Businesses mus… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutesWith GDPR in force from May 2018; many organizations having any relation with EU have taken considerable steps for compliance to GDPR. However, many organizations migh… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutesData integrity ensures that the information can only be accessed or modified by authorized individuals having access to the system. Physical security of data servers… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutes The enormity of data flowing through the organization is increasing daily with organization relying more on cloud storage rather than housing data servers. The data i… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutesAs we saw, collaborative governance is a form of governance where people come together and collaborate to come to a consensus regarding public policy problems. Here, … Read More

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn our last blog post, we discussed what collaborative governance is and how it came into being. We know that it includes the public and the private sector, along with… Read More

Reading Time: 3 minutesOver the past few weeks, we have spoken a lot about governance and in particular corporate governance. However, the definition of governance does not refer to manageme… Read More

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn our previous blogs, we saw what marketing really is, and the 4 P’s essential for formulating a proper marketing strategy. We also discussed about the product… Read More

Reading Time: 3 minutesWe spoke about how marketing works and what it actually is and also discussed the 4 important P’s of marketing which are essential for building a successful mark… Read More

Reading Time: 3 minutesAs we discussed in our last blog, marketing is all about understanding your customer’s needs and subsequently fulfilling those needs. Selling, is however when yo… Read More

Reading Time: 3 minutesWe have extensively spoken about corporate governance-what it is, how it works, its principles, models, etc. We know, that for any organization or company to be succes… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe answer is a YES! Let us see how. Sustainability, as per Wikipedia, can be defined as the process of maintaining change in a balanced fashion, in which th… Read More

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe importance of good corporate governance for a corporation’s success has been stressed enough in the past few blogs. However, even though you have kept in min… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe principles of corporate governance that are implemented and the model that is chosen, decides how well a corporate governance system works, that is, whether it is… Read More

Reading Time: 3 minutesWe have seen all about the principles of corporate governance as well as the various models available. The core principles guide us in creating a proper framework of c… Read More

Reading Time: 3 minutesCorporate governance, along with a set of principles also needs certain models in pace that can help the board of a corporation to identify what system or framework of… Read More

Reading Time: 2 minutesLike every aspect of management, even corporate governance has a certain set of principles. We need principles to make sure that the integrity and the efficiency of th… Read More

Reading Time: 3 minutesWe have seen in our various blogs that management and governance is always important if you want your organisation to succeed. It is important that people working in a… Read More

Reading Time: 3 minutesWe have spoken a lot about project management in the past few blogs. What it is, its phases, what a project manager does, the tools used and so on. As a project procee… Read More

Reading Time: 3 minutesWe have, in the previous blogs, elaborated on what project management is, what a project manager does, the phases of project management and the various approaches. How… Read More

Reading Time: 3 minutes In our last two blogs, we saw what project management is and the phases that are involved in the successful completion of a project and also the role of the project m… Read More

Reading Time: 3 minutesWe have seen what project management exactly is and also the steps involved in achieving successful implementation of project management techniques. Like we saw, the f… Read More

Reading Time: 4 minutesLast week, we saw how corporate governance is crucial to enable an organization to perform as per expectations. We spoke about what it is, how it works and how it bene… Read More

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn our last two blog posts, we saw what corporate governance is and the various models that can be adopted. Now, let us look at the various regulations and codes and g… Read More

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn our last blog, we saw what corporate governance is, why we need it and its principles that are generally followed by corporations. To further go into corporate… Read More

Reading Time: 3 minutes All corporations, big or small, need to be controlled and directed. Corporate governance is the term given to the system of rules, practices and processes through w… Read More

Reading Time: 3 minutesEvery organization has a magnanimous amount of documentation to take into account. So, evidently, there is a need for a systematic system to be in place. Document mana… Read More