Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by Relevance Date Order Asc Desc Research Guide March 7, 2025 Guide to Public Company Transformation: Frequently Asked Questions Initial public offerings (IPOs) often generate a great deal of excitement and can give new luster to company brands. It is easy to forget that IPOs can only thrive in the right business climate – and for organizations that have undertaken the business transformation necessary to reach this stage.As this Guide to Public Company Transformation makes clear, preparing to become a public company is… Client Story February 16, 2023 From legacy systems to cloud-based native microservices: finding success with AWS Successware is an end-to-end business management solution for the home service industry that supports both independent and franchise owners of the three trades brands franchised by affiliates of its parent company, Authority Brands, Inc. Successware Classic is a legacy software system built with Citrix, VDI, and SQL server hosted in a data center. This solution has been in place since the 1990s,… Survey April 17, 2025 Risk insights for operations teams The top near-term and long-term risk concerns of chief operating officers (COOs) include rising labour costs, uncertain economic conditions, talent and labour availability, regulatory uncertainty, the rapid speed of disruptive innovations, and the long-term supply of skills needed to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and other advanced technologies. These risk perspectives align with the top… Client Story January 6, 2026 Universal Parks & Resorts Transforms Its Supply Chain Team’s People Readiness Universal Parks & Resorts (UPR) welcomes guests around the world to experience epic stories and exhilarating adventures in astonishing and immersive new ways. UPR had undergone significant change and restructuring in the five years prior to Protiviti’s involvement and as a result, supply chain team members were unclear about their roles and responsibilities. In addition, UPR was looking to… Whitepaper April 17, 2024 Internal Audit’s Role in Supporting Sustainability Reporting Environmental, social and governance (ESG) guidance, stakeholder demands and regulatory mandates are evolving and becoming more specific, and the time of taking a “soft approach” to sustainability reporting has passed. As the need to provide, or prepare to provide, limited and/or reasonable assurance in sustainability reporting grows, internal audit’s role in the reporting process becomes obvious… Podcast May 22, 2025 Risky Women Podcast | Lessons from a Former CEO: A Discussion With Dame Inga Beale Carol Beaumier hosts Risky Women Radio and leads a compelling conversation with guest Dame Inga Beale. Together, they explore the challenges of leading companywide transformation programs, and the leadership skills needed to drive meaningful change. The discussion also touches on how leadership must evolve to meet future demands, how to navigate and overcome bias in the workplace, and Dame Inga’s… Podcast March 27, 2026 Risky Women Podcast | Beyond Compliance With Laura Ferrara Meet Laura Ferrara, Amplifon’s global chief internal audit and risk management officer — part risk detective, part people connector and full time hearing care champion. With a career that moved from PwC to telecoms, energy and rail before landing in hearing health, Laura turns dashboards into conversations, spreadsheets into strategy and risk into opportunity. Tune in for practical tips on… Client Story July 12, 2018 U.S retailer launches global supply chain capability in record time Even under normal conditions, creating a global supply chain capability from scratch is a complex and grueling endeavor. When a large U.S. retailer made a strategic decision to develop this ability — which included securing new overseas suppliers for tens of thousands of products, satisfying all customs requirements and creating a nationwide distribution capability — in less than six months, the… Survey July 30, 2024 Internal Auditing Around the World® Studying the cosmos has transformed our understanding of how planets, stars and galaxies form, and revealed deeper insights into the fundamental nature of the universe. Astrophysicists and cosmologists pursue this knowledge, in effect, by looking into the past. Using cutting-edge technology like that employed in the James Webb Space Telescope, they examine places that existed billions of years… Whitepaper April 24, 2024 Sanctions Risk Assessment: A Key Risk Management Tool Faced with the growing complexity of the geopolitical landscape, governments have been using financial sanctions increasingly as foreign policy tools to respond to developments as wide ranging as regional conflicts and wars, terrorism, and human slavery. In today’s highly charged geopolitical environment, sanctions compliance is a focus not only for financial institutions and regulatory… Load More