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Integrated Reporting

April 15, 2013 by Luc Brandts
Filed under: General, Integrated reporting

It’s an interesting term: integrated reporting. A report is supposed to provide a comprehensive view on a situation. If a general asks for a report on a war zone, he doesn’t want to hear all the details, but he does want to hear about all the hot spots and next moves. Similarly, if you are asking your contractor for a debrief about how things are going on the renovation you’re doing, you want to hear about everything, including progress, any leakage, any roadblocks, any decisions to make, any unforeseen risks, not just the costs. Read more

Tags: Integrated reporting

What does integrated reporting mean and what to do?

February 25, 2013 by Mikko Valtonen
Filed under: Integrated reporting, Sustainability and EHS

Recently we have been educating ourselves on the Integrated Reporting Initiative. It is a very relevant concept and is getting a lot of market attention. A lot of people have asked me what the concept of integrated reporting means and how to get started. My answer is this; set your goals and start communicating with different departments inside your organization. Integrated reporting is clearly a cross-silo, cross-department exercise that needs close cooperation between different departments.

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Tags: Integrated reporting, Sustainability

ServiceNow.com Service Management and BWise Accomplished!

February 12, 2013 by Anton Lissone
Filed under: Governance, Risk and Compliance, IT Governance

As we are working our way into more and more IT GRC related territories, the logical next step would be to integrate our GRC solution with ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) Service Management processes. Currently, BWise itself is making use of TopDesk but a more commonly found ITIL Service Management Solution would be ServiceNow.com. Integration through their web services would allow BWise GRC to be able to perform reporting on top of Change Requests, Incidents, and many more of the great features offered through that Cloud Based platform.

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Tags: Compliance, GRC, IT Governance

Things to consider as GRC market is maturing

February 5, 2013 by Luc Brandts
Filed under: Governance, Risk and Compliance

It is impossible to read a story about Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) without reading about how this market is maturing. While this may be true in some respects, there are certainly elements of early adolescence in many cases. The most important thing is that most companies by now acknowledge that implementing GRC is not a Big-Bang software implementation, but a step-by-step GRC Journey. Most companies take several years to implement this.

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Tags: GRC

Sent items – a key risk overlooked

December 6, 2012 by Luc Brandts
Filed under: Risk Management

Well, let me give you some personal numbers:

2007 -  6.902
2008 - 7.790
2009 - 9.153
2010 - 10.753
2011 - 11.902

These are the numbers of emails I sent from 2006 to 2011 (more on 2012 in a second). It went up an astonishing 72% in 5 years. The good news is that it seems that it went down slightly this year, but it certainly doesn’t feel that way yet.

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Tags: Risk, Risk Management