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Jeffrey Wheatman, Guest Blogger
Last week, after grueling but exciting five days at Gartner Symposium in Orlando I found myself sitting on my return flight back to the home office. I cracked open my brand-new copy of Freakonomics, which is a book I have long had on my list and never quite got around to reading. [...]

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What is the most important role of the IT department in managing enterprise risks?  Is it to just manage IT’s own risk, with a focus on security?  Is it to get better alignment of IT services to business needs?  Is it to advise the general counsel, the chief financial officer, and other business executives on [...]

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Gartner’s special report on vendor risk management, which my colleague Helen Huntley and I led, points to over two dozen research notes on the topic.  The fact that analysts from across several different research groups at Gartner have contributed points to the complexity of the challenge facing any IT leader seeking to improve VRM.  Many [...]

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In the end, all risk management is information management, and the reverse is not true.  Much information management is done without a risk-oriented view or a business-oriented view, and the result is a lot of wasted time and money.  So how about taking a risk-oriented business approach to information management (should I invent a new [...]

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Take a look at these Gartner research notes published in the last week:
Transparency Provides Opportunities and Threats in the 21st Century — Like it or lump it, thanks to a combination of regulation and technology, transparency is here to stay. This note points out how to maximize business opportunities and manage the risks [...]

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A NYT piece about how the Army is using wikis to write doctrine made the rounds on a Gartner analyst e-mail DL today.

Doctrine is supposedly doctrine because the principles it teaches age slowly.  So, is a wiki the right vehicle for maintaining doctrine?  I imagine the colonels who really write the Army’s doctrine must [...]

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“Today, my administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul of the financial regulatory system, a transformation on a scale not seen since the reforms that followed the Great Depression,” announced President Barack Obama today from the White House.
While the changes are big, they are not as sweeping as they could have been.  Political obstacles prevented the [...]

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Pundits have pointed to the development of a new normal by describing what path the economic recovery will follow.  Some expect a traditional V-shape recovery and others a double-dip W.  George Soros once called for what might best be called an inverse square root — that is a false recovery followed by a deep slide [...]

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As much fun as sitting around and doing nothing can be while the Internet is down, it can be a bit over the top sometimes — especially if your job is to root out terrorists.  Many, if not most, intelligence and counter-terroism analysts at the FBI, US Marshalls, and Homeland Security have been without Internet [...]

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To register, here’s the link:High-Tech Tuesday Series: Risk Management and Compliance: Still Selling? 11a.m. EDT / 15:00 BST
In 2008, the global economy entered uncharted waters and took all of us along as passengers. The rapid collapse of the financial system, the failure of regulators to prevent it and the well-publicized examples of large-scale fraud have [...]

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