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The International Standard on Sustainability Assurance, or ISSA 5000, developed by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) in late 2024, is widely expected to be the global benchmark for sustainability assurance, influencing the future of sustainability audits. As regulatory mandates for sustainability reporting increase, organisations seeking to enhance the credibility of their reports are…

The economy, talent and cyber threats represent the most pressing risk issues organisations face over both the near- and long-term, with artificial intelligence (AI) concerns lurking as well. Yet board members and executives view their organisations as more resilient and better prepared to manage through change. 

HR functions will play a key role in overseeing AI usage throughout the organisation. This responsibility has huge ramifications for HR professionals and nearly all of the functional pillars within HR.

FinOps provides organisations with a strategic framework for optimising cloud costs while fueling growth initiatives. By adopting FinOps principles and practices, private equity firms can align cloud spending with growth and margin objectives, set tangible spend goals and maximise ROI and drive operational efficiency.

Driven by stringent global privacy regulations, consumer privacy and security are top of mind for technology executives. Compliance with these regulations requires organisations to think through their approach to collecting, securing, managing access to, and deleting customer data.

Cloud infrastructure has emerged as a critical factor for driving business success. Ensuring cloud resilience isn’t just desirable, it’s essential as application downtime means lost revenue. A comprehensive approach to cloud resilience ensures that when failures occur, systems can recover quickly, continue to deliver value and maintain business continuity in the face of disruptions. This approach, known as…

While the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) that took effect in January 2023 is primarily disclosure-oriented, the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) is all about action.

Embracing emerging technologies to drive business growth is a common focus for forward-thinking leaders. Businesses are pursuing technology modernisation initiatives to enhance their competitiveness, efficiency and agility. These initiatives aim to upgrade and improve an organisation’s technology infrastructure, systems, software and practices.

As organisations transition to SAP S/4HANA and SAP cloud solutions, they often discover that GRC capabilities and processes also need to be updated on a more frequent basis. One example of a continuously changing dataset is the segregation of duties (SoD) ruleset. With S/4HANA, the GRC ruleset now supports monitoring many new access types including Fiori apps and HANA database access. 

The challenging workforce ecosystem for manufacturers and distributors shows no sign of easing, as companies in the industry have hundreds of thousands of open positions and are struggling to retain key talent. Compounded by a highly competitive labor market, an aging workforce and increased digitisation of factory operations, the labor deficit is hampering productivity and growth.