Increasing demand for board and executive accountability, ever-mounting regulatory requirements and spiraling compliance costs have combined to create an urgent imperative to improve governance, risk and compliance (GRC) processes and practices. We’ve compiled a collection of articles and tools to help you understand how an integrated GRC approach can drive business value. This GRC collection of resources is organized by topic.
Integrated GRC
Demystifying GRC
BTQ (Business Trends Quarterly) article on integrated GRC and the debate around the GRC acronym.
Integrated GRC Programs Offer Tangible Business Benefits
Read the results of the 2007 Open Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG) GRC Strategy Survey.
Making the Case for GRC
An illustration to help you make the business case for GRC at your organization.
Integrating Governance, Risk and Compliance: Global Challenges, Compelling Mandate
How a strong GRC linkage can help companies govern effectively and achieve short- and long-term results by managing risk and compliance programs.
Look Closer, Look Further: How to Build a Better Business Case for Improving Information Capabilities
This piece discusses how to build a better business case for improving information capabilities.
Governance
An Integrated Approach to Governance, Risk and Compliance
Integration can lead to better decisions, improved performance and greater confidence. In light of uncertain economic conditions, integrating GRC is more vital than ever. Visit our resource library.
In the Dark II: What Boards and Executives Still Don’t Know About the Health of Their Businesses
This report reveals a critical disconnect between rhetoric and reality in the boardrooms and management circles of some of the world’s leading companies.
Our Crisis of Trust
Tom Connors on the CRO (Corporate Responsibility Officer) Blog.
Information Technology and GRC
GRC 360 — Emerging Technologies Edition
The spring 2007 issue of GRC 360 is built around the theme of “Emerging Technologies for GRC.” Lee Dittmar authored an article titled “First Steps on a Long Journey Toward an Architected GRC System” and was prominently quoted in an article called “The Future is Now: Cutting Edge Technology for GRC.”
Aligning IT Assets With Governance, Risk and Compliance Needs: What’s So Different Today?
Technology plays an increasingly important role in helping facilitate GRC programs. Lee Dittmar discusses what is so different about information technology’s (IT) role in helping companies meet their GRC needs.
The Emerging Role of Technology in Governance, Risk and Compliance
Lee Dittmar moderates an in-depth panel session with participants from several respected technology vendors to discuss the common barriers to aligning IT with GRC programs, and what companies are doing to improve GRC programs using IT.
Bringing Information Technology to the Front Burner: Why it Matters, How to Make it Happen
Why does IT matter so much to boards? It is the "linchpin for a company's entire ecosystem," according to Lee Dittmar and Ken Porrello, and directors are taking notice of its strategic importance.
Risk Management
The Risk Intelligent CIO: Becoming a Front-Line IT Leader in a Risky World
Perceptive chief information officers (CIO) realize that simply managing technology risks — however effectively they do so — is insufficient. They understand the imperative to exploit technology to manage risk across the entire enterprise, not merely within the IT department.
Gaining Competitive Advantage with SAP GRC Risk Management Webcast
In this Webcast from SAP, learn how companies are using advanced risk management software to recognize critical risks, respond appropriately and manage risk within the all-important context of corporate strategy and goals.
The Risk Intelligent Energy Company: Weathering the Storm of Climate Change
Issue No. 7 in the Risk Intelligence Series provides energy executives with insight into identifying their key climate change risks, discusses how an integrated Risk Intelligent enterprise risk management approach helps manage these risks and offers guidance on how to benefit from the implications of climate change.
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