by French Caldwell | May 1, 2013 | 1 Comment
I just returned from the MetricStream GRC Summit in Las Vegas where I presented a keynote on risk management and performance. The summit was very well planned, organized, and executed. The speakers and panel participants talked not just theory but provided practical examples of the benefits and challenges of using GRC technologies to improve their [...]
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by French Caldwell | January 4, 2013 | 1 Comment
Wow — less than two years to settle the Google antitrust case. Remember the Microsoft antitrust case — it seemed to drag on forever. One difference here is that the Google case was handled by the FTC, which has become the de-facto consumer information technology industry regulator. At the time of the Microsoft case, there [...]
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by French Caldwell | December 31, 2012 | 1 Comment
At the Gartner Symposium in Orlando, I found just about every 1-1 meeting with attendees and Gartner clients could be boiled down to “things just aren’t working right in my organization.” I found that instead of engaging in discussions about the GRC vendors I cover, I was providing leadership counseling. Fortunately, I had just read [...]
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by French Caldwell | October 11, 2012 | Comments Off
Wow – just as we’re starting to grapple with the future of risk from social media and along come researchers with the biological internet. The Harvard DNA storage story broke a few months ago, and now researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine have gotten cells to communicate through DNA packets – with a range of [...]
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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 | July 1, 2012 | 1 Comment
Risk management and compliance is a hot topic and no where is it hotter than in banking. And with all the banking scandals which illustrate more and more risk management failures in banking, it’s easy to overlook a fairly innocuous story on how one bank is taking the leap into social media in a big [...]
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by French Caldwell | April 5, 2012 | 1 Comment
For many years I’ve claimed that there are critical uncertainties of IT-led globalization that affect all business decision making: These being the confidence in the connected economy, the pace of globalization, regulatory change, the nature of warfare, the race for resources, and social e-governance. It is to sustain growth in the face of these critical [...]
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by French Caldwell | March 15, 2012 | 1 Comment
The first-ever CLO survey from Gartner and ALM, a leading provider of news and information for the legal profession, provides important insights into CLOs’ views on how IT is — and should — support the legal department. Gartner and ALM conducted the CLO survey in October 2011. Four findings in particular stand out: Among CLOs [...]
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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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