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  • Flash Report

    March 29, 2023
    The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) has released supplemental guidance on how to effectively apply the 2013 Internal Control — Integrated Framework (ICIF) — which is currently applied to financial reporting — to sustainability reporting. The guidance results from a project approved by the COSO board a year ago with the objective of helping organizations “…
  • Survey

    January 13, 2023
    Global economic uncertainty, inflation and supply chain disruptions are major headwinds facing the consumer products and services industry group, and particularly consumer packaged goods (CPG) and retail companies, heading into the new year. Separately, for airlines and hospitality companies, the potential impact of an unexpected crisis on revenue and resistance to cultural changes are the top…
  • Newsletter

    November 14, 2021
    In the third decade of the 21st century, smart companies and boards across all industries recognize that the pace of technological change continues to unfold at warp speed. The question in the boardroom a decade ago — “Should we invest in digital transformation?” — has transitioned to a different question today: “How much should we invest and, more important, how fast should we invest, given our…
  • Newsletter

    April 13, 2023
    As a term in business, “agile” is typically used to refer to a project management methodology, especially for software development. But there is a different, more strategic connotation of agility that merits close attention by boards as markets evolve.A global survey reports resistance to change as a top 10 risk looking out both 12 months and 10 years. CEOs and their executive teams face the…
  • Whitepaper

    May 4, 2019
    As organizations implement new enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to automate processes, it is becoming increasingly critical not just for IT, but also for the business units themselves, to understand their central role in the overall success of these initiatives. The implementation of an ERP system or any other major IT system should never be viewed as just an IT project because,…
  • Client Story

    February 26, 2021
    A successful organization is one that can deftly coordinate its many moving parts, but, sometimes, even the best organizations can get out of sync. That was the case with an aerospace company and its inventory. The organization knew it was operating with too much stock and was even holding millions of units after they had been written off the books. The company made numerous attempts to optimize…
  • Newsletter

    September 28, 2022
    “Outsourcing and other third-party relationships can bring multiple benefits to FIs, including: enhanced operational resilience; faster and more tailored financial products and services; cost reduction; greater innovation; and improved internal processes. However, outsourcing and third-party relationships can give rise to new or different risks to FIs and potentially to financial stability that…
  • Newsletter

    March 15, 2022
    Data proliferation and data privacy regulatory activity across the globe have created the need for focused boardroom discussions. While cybersecurity continues to be an issue for boards, a more targeted focus on data privacy is increasingly necessary to ensure compliance across a rapidly expanding number of privacy regulations. Privacy risk represents a unique challenge driven by the volume and…
  • Podcast

    July 4, 2022
    Corporate culture, once a rather squishy, hard-to-define concept for organisations, increasingly is a top-of-mind concern for leaders looking to create a desirable workplace for innovation and one where employees who have many choices want to remain long-term. The challenges are especially acute amid the current war for talent and the need to attract and retain the best people. And part of…
  • Podcast

    December 10, 2022
    A fast-growing ESG topic in boardrooms and C-suites is ESG traceability – achieving transparency into the complete supply chain of goods and services. Organizations – and more importantly, their customers and clients – are seeking more transparent, secure and responsible supply chains. This is about far more than one supplier or manufacturer meeting the organization’s ESG standards. It’s about…
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