Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry Typelist People Client Story Insights/Blogs Sort by: Relevance Date Filter Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Blog March 7, 2018 Changing Minds, Business Models: Can the Consumer Products and Services Industry Sell Its Vision to the Workforce? Technology was, by far, the star of this year’s National Retail Federation “Big Show” conference in January – from smart shelves fitted with real-time inventory trackers to mobile checkout apps and robots that promise to drive costs and errors out of the supply chain. Retail automation is a trend we touched on in a blog post on mobile payments back in May of last year. Already, advances in… Blog March 8, 2018 The 2018 Audit Committee Agenda: You Asked, We Answer Topical webinars featuring Protiviti’s subject-matter experts rank among our most popular content — both live and on demand. One of the best features of the live versions are the questions from participants, which offer insight into what’s top of mind for them. Our recent webinar on the 2018 Audit Committee Agenda drew out some interesting questions, which we are happy to share as part of our… Blog March 9, 2018 Check Your Blind Spot: GDPR Poses Veiled Risks for M&D Companies Executives that participated in Protiviti’s latest annual top risks survey, conducted with North Carolina State University ERM Initiative, ranked regulatory changes and scrutiny as a top-five risk in 2018. That’s hardly a shocker, considering that respondents typically identify regulatory issues as a top concern each year. Companies unaware that regulatory changes could affect them are at even… Blog March 12, 2018 Analytics in Auditing Is a Game Changer – New Protiviti Survey Released Organizations worldwide are undertaking business and digital transformation initiatives, enabling changes that will have far-reaching effects on every enterprise function. Not surprisingly, the ability to utilize data analytics and big data to achieve competitive advantage and manage operations and strategic plans ranks among the top risk issues for board members and C-suite executives worldwide… Blog March 13, 2018 Disruptive Innovation Front and Center for Manufacturers and Distributors in 2018, According to Survey Digitalization has been called the fourth industrial revolution. New business models are emerging to keep up with the rapid pace of change, and not surprisingly, they are being met with some predictable internal resistance and cultural challenges. As these more agile and automated models rely to an ever-greater extent on technology and third-party suppliers, supply chain risk is an increasing… Blog March 14, 2018 Market Volatility: Is Your IPO Ready to Go? January 2018 set a record for initial public offerings (IPOs), with 17 companies raising almost $8 billion, surpassing the record of January 2014, when 12 IPOs raised $5.3 billion. That pace slowed considerably in February, however, amid substantial market volatility. It is easy to understand why companies – or their underwriters – grew shy of IPOs amidst the market swings. IPO activity… Blog June 30, 2020 Getting to Resilient: Reimagining Crisis Management and Business Continuity Planning in a New Reality COVID-19 has exposed glaring deficiencies in business continuity and crisis management plans at organizations across all industries. And while executives and management today are focusing the lion’s share of their efforts on responding to the day-to-day upheaval caused by the virus, they should be preparing now for the possibility of a second wave that further disrupts business. In a recent… Blog July 1, 2020 Beyond Business Continuity Management: Building Resilience for Extreme but Plausible Events in a Post-COVID-19 World The concept of an extreme but plausible event is a moving and expanding target. Over time, our thinking on what can be deemed implausible or improbable will continue to evolve. The magnitude of impact from real events will reshape our view of what today is considered extreme. It is true that organizations and their business continuity management (BCM) teams often contemplate scenarios that are… Blog July 1, 2020 New Territory: Private Equity Firms Eye the 401K Market With good reason, private equity (PE) firms are abuzz about the recent Information Letter from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), which permits PE firms to market PE funds as components of target date, target risk, or balanced funds. On June 3, the DOL issued an Information Letter under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). The letter concerns PE investments as components… Blog July 2, 2020 Effective Third-Party Risk Management During COVID-19 and Beyond Organizations that rely on third parties to perform key services or deliver critical goods have had those relationships tested in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic caused critical vendors to become temporarily unavailable, change how they provide services, or forced them to go out of business altogether. Exports from China and other countries have been heavily impacted as factories were taken… Load More