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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by French Caldwell | July 22, 2010 | 2 Comments
My colleague Carsten Casper sent this interesting note earlier this week: Ever wondered what sort of information the EU (!) collects about its citizens? Here is the answer: http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/10/349&form%20at=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en Criminal records, fingerprints, Visa information,… in short: there are 18 different EU mechanisms, i.e. not counting national systems. The responsible EU Commissioner, Cecilia Malmström, was surprised [...]
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by French Caldwell | June 9, 2010 | 2 Comments
According to a CFO mag article on a soon to be published survey of CFOs on their risk management practices, the top four risk management priorities for CFOs are: 1 – Avoid a large loss 2 – Fulfill shareholder expectations 3 – Increase expected future cash flows 4 – Increase the firm’s value Notice that [...]
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by French Caldwell | May 31, 2010 | Comments Off
Flying home from Boston last week, at the departure gate all the passengers were standing up and looking out the window at the plane. I walked over and the first thing I saw was a firetruck and I thought, oh no, there’s a fire on our plane. And then I saw all the firemen standing [...]
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by French Caldwell | March 2, 2010 | 5 Comments
I’m sitting in the Denver airport on my way to the RSA conference after just having attended the SAS industry analyst summit in Steamboat Springs. This summit was the first time I’ve had much interaction with SAS, or for that matter, any of the other business analytics vendors — by the way, can I call [...]
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by French Caldwell | February 22, 2010 | 1 Comment
In Maine, every middle schooler is issued a laptop. This is a trend that is gaining around the world — the Australia federal government is funding laptops in that country. Isn’t it cool that governments, non-profits and software vendors are making sure that students have the technology to learn? (Loud sound of tires skidding). Hold [...]
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by French Caldwell | January 20, 2010 | 1 Comment
Having grown up in hurricane country, I have a pretty good idea as to the barriers to disaster relief. My hometown of Pascagoula has seen two “storms of a lifetime” in my lifetime and countless other hurricanes and tornadoes. So though I have something to say, understanding the barriers to rapid relief as I do [...]
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by French Caldwell | January 13, 2010 | 9 Comments
So how about that Google — they’ve finally come back to their core principle: Do No Evil. Not so fast, though. With both Google and China, what’s on the surface is not what’s really happening. So, some speculation on Google’s new approach to China — and remember this is just purely personal speculation — and [...]
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by French Caldwell | January 12, 2010 | 6 Comments
I’ve been involved in some discussions recently around GRC that remind me about the arguments around KM — as to whether it is a valid term or not. The antagonists argue that GRC does more harm than good. They argue that the term creates market confusion, that the vendors that claim to offer GRC solutions [...]
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