by French Caldwell | December 23, 2011 | Comments Off
Imagine if we didn’t have Christmas at the end of the year? What would it be like in the cold dark northern hemisphere? The New Year would probably still be a time of starting anew with a fresh perspective – but towards the end of the old year …? Perhaps at work instead of having [...]
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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 | October 3, 2011 | 1 Comment
First of all — this post is just my personal observation on the opening of Open World and is not a Gartner position or statement. I’ve tracked Oracle first as a KM analyst and now as a GRC analyst for 12 years now, and I’ve seen them grow from a data management focus to business [...]
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by French Caldwell | September 27, 2011 | Comments Off
Headlining today’s Financial Times is a proposed European Commission rule to prohibit the Big Four audit firms from doing consulting work. The idea is that consulting and other advisory work that a Big Four firm would do for your company could compromise the independence of the statutory audits — leading to less transparency for investors. [...]
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by French Caldwell | September 24, 2011 | Comments Off
Mr. Oswald Gruebel blames himself for the UBS fraud and walks with no severance … http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/24/us-ubs-idUSTRE78L7IB20110924 This is a complete turnaround from his first statement where he said it was not his fault – but good on him. Mr. Gruebel is setting the right tone for his peers – that’s good leadership, even though it [...]
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by French Caldwell | October 27, 2010 | Comments Off
Anti-fraud, -Bribery, -Corruption. New ABC laws and accelerating enforcement of old ones were the messages from attorney Mark Mendelsohn at the Washington, DC, meeting of the Directors Roundtable Wednesday morning. Mark is with law firm Paul Weiss and is a former Department of Justice prosecutor who until six months ago headed up the team responsible [...]
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by French Caldwell | October 20, 2010 | 1 Comment
One of the biggest barriers to growth in the cloud services marketplace is uncertainty about the risks. In their latest white paper, Evaluating Cloud Computing Risk for the Enterprise, BITS, which manages the Shared Assessments Program — a vendor risk management standard, has provided a framework for assessing cloud risks and determining the appropriate controls. [...]
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by French Caldwell | October 13, 2010 | Comments Off
The 2010 Enterprise GRC Platforms Magic Quadrant is quite surprising in the number of vendor moves from one quadrant to another. The main reason for this shift is the increasing number and complexity of functions demanded by buyers. GRC has always been a tough slog for vendors — the goal is to have a platform [...]
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by French Caldwell | September 30, 2010 | Comments Off
So what are content services giants Wolters Kluwer and Thomson Reuters doing in the EGRC platform market? Both now have consolidated most of their GRC-related software and content services into distinct business units, and both are busily making acquisitions in the GRC space. Recently TR acquired a banking content services provider, Complinet, and WK acquired [...]
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by French Caldwell | August 3, 2010 | Comments Off
Does your company do an annual risk assessment? What happens afterward — is there ongoing monitoring and management of risks throughout the year? Or is the assessment just an exercise to review last year’s risk assessment and update it for this year’s? Very few enterprises truly evaluate their risks — rather they take a list [...]
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