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Headline A number of recent publications have extoled the virtues of internal audit having a seat at the management table. I don’t agree. I think that a seat at the table for the Chief Audit Executive would probably be the worst place to be. We need to be in
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I missed an important element when writing the short post in weaponizing internal audit. This post was inspired by a sentence written by Mike Monteiro in his new book, “Design is a Job”. When we talk about using internal audit as a defensive asset whose presence should ensure higher compliance,
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I had an interesting conversation this morning in the train to work. Discussing the lack of guidance about future avenues school choices taken now imply, I had a flashback. I remember one of my first days at University. We walked into an economics lesson, and the professor started to tell
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"Your lawyer is a defensive asset and not to be weaponized unless absolutely necessary.". Courtesy of Mike Monteiro. Internal auditors are much the same. In essence, we are defensive assets. Our presence should prevent issues. But in order to be a relevant defensive asset, you need to be
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"But as a designer, hell, as any type of craftsperson, you are responsible for what you put into the world." - Mike Monteiro in his just published book "Design is a job" think about it. It's your responsibility. And don't forget, it&
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The importance of consultation and communication in risk management ISO 31000 refers to consultation and communication with stakeholders as a key activity in a well implemented risk management methodology. Let’s examine why these elements are important. The elements ISO talks about consultation and communication with stakeholders. So we need
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This is a post about my current audit reporting workflow. It's based on working with an Apple computer. Why Apple? Simple, the software becomes ubiquitous. In the many years I used Windows, I never felt the software was not there. With Apple, I have this all the time.
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In a blog post about how Valve operations are significantly different from other environments he had worked for, Michael Abrash made some very astute observations about how our current creative economy is significantly different from anything that went before. He states: "almost all the value was in performing a
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Please note this is an opinion piece. There are some strongly held convictions which I voice here. My involvement in trying to establish internal audit in the Belgian federal government Recently, rumors have been building up again about a centralized internal audit service for the Belgian federal government. I think
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"With money, comes accountability to the customer." Mr Eddie Smith speaks true when he says this in his to the point analysis of Google relations with us, their users, not their customer. You can find the article here. One problem ... I get this feeling with a lot of
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Following Sven’s advice I just did what I should have done a long time ago: I followed Sven Fechner’s advise. His “Simplicity is Bliss” blog is a wonderful resource for common sense productivity tips and other great Mac inspired ideas. But, back to my point. Mr. Fechner suggested
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For those not familiar with GTD, David Allen’s highly successful personal productivity approach, get this book (please note this is my affiliate link, you can of course log onto Amazon yourself), and read the first three chapters. It’s worth it, if only for the different way you’ll