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  • Client Story

    February 27, 2020
    Australian consumer products firm leans on Protiviti’s managed business services model to address post-acquisition challenges
    It happens all the time. A successful enterprise attracts the attention of a larger corporation, which envisions greatly expanding the reach of the enterprise through its financial backing. But once inside the corporation, the limits of the company’s legacy systems and manual processes become apparent. In some cases, the organization may require a business-wide operational review. That was the…

  • Client Story

    December 19, 2022
    National Defense Agency makes quick return to remote work
    Governmental agencies can be seen as slow to adopt new processes, but when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, this foreign defense agency needed to make a quick shift to remote working for both civilian and non-civilian employees while maintaining a high level of readiness. They urgently rolled out Microsoft 365 to enable remote work and communication for approximately 60,000 of their approximately 150,…

  • Whitepaper

    October 22, 2020
    How Firms Can Tackle Technology Risk Blind Spots to Build Resilience
    Contrary to popular belief, criminals — insiders or outsiders — are not the most common cause of major operational failures. Technology is the biggest culprit. The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, robotic process automation (RPA), cloud computing and other technologies continues to transform finance. It has created a mix of technological risks that frequently disrupt…

  • Whitepaper

    November 21, 2022
    Preparing financial institutions for an unfamiliar economic downturn
    We are in unusual economic times. While making predictions may be a fool’s errand, the aggressive posturing among central banks to fight runaway inflation implies that we will soon be — if not already are — in the late stage of the economic cycle. However, considering the past several months of mixed economic data, the outcome of the downturn and the developments that drive it are likely to look…

  • Podcast

    December 4, 2023
    Podcast ǀ A Recipe for Excellence in the Business of Law
    “Technology will help us be better stewards of managing risk by leveraging data to tell a story… It allows businesses to see actual data and say, “Wow, if we partner with legal in a different proactive way, we can avoid some of these costs.” -Mark Smolik, General CounselMark Smolik, Chief Legal Officer for DHL Supply Chain in the Americas, is no stranger to the demands placed on today’s corporate…

  • Podcast

    June 12, 2024
    Podcast | The Quantum Many-Body Problem — with Benedikt Fauseweh of TU Dortmund University
    When Richard Feynman proposed the idea of a quantum simulator or computer in 1981, he was frustrated by the limitations of classical systems. He logically suggested that if we live in a quantum world, we need a quantum device to simulate all the interactions of particles that make up reality. An excellent example of such a transistor-choking calculation is the quantum many-body problem. Have…

  • Newsletter

    December 11, 2020
    Unleash Adhocracy to Face Emerging Risks
    Emerging risks are newly developing risks that cannot yet be fully assessed but could, in the future, affect the viability of an organization’s strategy and business model. A risk-savvy culture sometimes needs an informal adhocracy to identify emerging risks in a timely manner. While every organization has a risk assessment process, we often hear that the process as it exists now is too static…

  • Podcast Transcript

    July 27, 2023
    Transcript | The Rise of Generative AI – with Christine Livingston
    ChatGPT is the talk of the town today. But as we all know, generative AI is much more than this one tool. Gen AI represents a new frontier of promise, productivity and capabilities for organizations around the world. But it also comes with risks that these organizations must understand and manage if they’re going to capitalize successfully on these new technologies.In this episode, we talk all…

  • Newsletter

    August 7, 2024
    10 Questions to Increase Your Strategic Impact as a Board Member
    The role of corporate directors is to be trusted advisers to the CEO consistent with their duty of care and to exercise oversight on the shareholders’ behalf. To confirm they are fulfilling this role, directors need to periodically self-assess their boardroom performance. To facilitate this self-assessment, this issue of Board Perspectives offers 10 questions that directors should ask themselves:…

  • Whitepaper

    April 25, 2022
    Human v. machine: Tackling artificial intelligence risks in financial institutions
    In the novel Tell the Machine Goodnight, Katie Williams tells the story of Pearl, a technician for Apricity Corporation, which has developed a machine that “uses a sophisticated metric, taking into account factors of which we are not consciously aware,” and with 99.7% accuracy, offers recommendations for what will make people happy. Does this narrative provide a glimpse into our future? Will…
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