by French Caldwell | January 25, 2013 | 1 Comment
I’ve read through new draft guidance from U.S. financial services regulators on the use of social media. What struck me most is that instead of taking a compliance and control point of view, it talks instead of risks, and the need to ensure that social media risks are included in your risk management program. That’s [...]
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by French Caldwell | January 9, 2013 | Comments Off
It could be awfully confusing to try to make sense out of today’s FT. A front page article highlights that the US is headed toward energy independence, which is a boon to energy intensive industries — heavy manufacturing, high tech manufacturing, petrochemicals, and even IT services. On the other hand, a lead opinion piece touts [...]
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by French Caldwell | October 31, 2012 | 2 Comments
I expect to hear a lot of stories about social technology keeping people connected in the aftermath of Sandy — just as after Katrina. However, I am also expecting these stories to take a twist — we will hear about how neighbors organized self-relief efforts using social media. Social media has been playing a part [...]
Category: public policy Risk Management Social Technology Tags: crisis management, disaster, Public Policy, social
by French Caldwell | October 26, 2012 | Comments Off
One of the questions I get all the time is, “Where can I find what regulations apply to me?” I talked this morning to Fred Diers who has created GRMpedia which tracks regulations and their retention and reporting requirements. Regs tracked include, marketing, finance, research and development, EHS, contracts, leases, IP, governance, HR and others. [...]
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Category: compliance GRC public policy Tags: compliance, Financial Regulations, Privacy, records retention
by French Caldwell | October 12, 2012 | Comments Off
In the last week I’ve had two calls with companies deciding how to respond to the cybersecurity letter that Sen. Rockefeller sent to the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. The deadline to respond is 19 October. CEOs are not required to respond, and with the demise of the Cybersecurity Act of 2012, it’s tempting not [...]
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Category: Cybersecurity public policy Risk Management Tags: cybersecurity, Public Policy, Risk Management
by French Caldwell | August 13, 2012 | Comments Off
Living inside the capital beltway, you meet all kinds of people that have jobs that just don’t have any equivalency anywhere else: Like the lady I talked to last week who provides advice on safety issues associated with the modernization program for the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile. I mentioned to her a recent GAO report [...]
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by French Caldwell | August 3, 2012 | Comments Off
IT – The Existential Threat With the growing number of business failures attributable to IT, it’s getting hard to keep up with them all. Who can forget the IT-enabled bungling of the Facebook IPO. And now we have the Knight Capital hash – where a mistake in a high frequency trading program has created an [...]
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by French Caldwell | February 27, 2012 | Comments Off
I’m at the SAS industry analyst day in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. There’s been a lot of emphasis here on big data, high powered analytics and in-memory computing. It got me to thinking about an article last week in Wired about a new academic study on high frequency trading. The study found that there have been [...]
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by French Caldwell | November 17, 2011 | Comments Off
The events today are an inflection point in social e-governance. In my presentations on the Six Critical Uncertainties, I’ve said for years that social e-governance is the most pressing IT-led issue of our time. The political process is meant to resolve or at least manage public policy issues, but due to the rapid adoption of [...]
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by French Caldwell | November 2, 2011 | Comments Off
Many risk managers are still in a situation where they’d like to be able to contribute strategically, but they find themselves in the position of spending a lot of time still reacting to events. The upcoming annual meeting season is an opportunity for risk managers to show that they can be more than just the [...]
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Category: compliance public policy Risk Management Strategic Planning Tags: ERM, reputational risk
