Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Podcast January 9, 2025 Podcast | ESG Mindset – A Conversation with Matthew Sekol In this episode of Board Perspectives, Protiviti Associate Director Alyse Mauro Mason talks to Matthew about the ESG mindset, technology and where we are headed. Matthew leads Microsoft's Sustainability Partners to help companies understand their challenges through data. In 2024, Matthew released a book called ESG Mindset, a guide for companies to think critically about ESG and take a holistic… In Focus July 23, 2024 Will CrowdStrike serve as a reboot on tech resiliency? Global IT systems are still in reboot and recovery after a software update by cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike caused a massive worldwide outage of Windows computers. Global businesses, governments and organisations were impacted across several industries, including airlines, banks, telecommunications, and healthcare. While the dust settles on the specifics of the how and the why of the global… Blogs January 31, 2024 Navigating the GenAI course with Microsoft Copilot Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is a hot topic these days, and not just in the IT world. The statistics indicate off-the-charts interest in GenAI’s capabilities, with AI spending predicted to more than double to $300 billion by 2026. Organisations are gearing up, determining how to best incorporate GenAI to significantly enhance their customer relations, revenue growth, cost… Blogs May 5, 2023 Creating a resilient cybersecurity strategy: The governance lifecycle approach Cybersecurity governance should do more than manage cyber risk. Good cybersecurity governance creates efficiencies by clarifying the outcomes expected from its processes and establishing boundaries of responsibility among cybersecurity practitioners, frontline operational areas, senior leaders and board members. Recently, numerous crises have drawn senior leaders and board members down… Video December 21, 2024 Video | Protiviti Legal Perspectives With Managing Director Joel Wuesthoff In the latest episode of the Protiviti Legal Perspectives podcast series, host Chad Volkert, Global Solutions leader at Protiviti, welcomes Joel Wuesthoff, a managing director in Protiviti’s Legal Consulting practice. With over two decades of experience in the legal industry, Joel brings deep expertise in litigation, e-discovery, data management and the evolving domains of data privacy and… Blogs April 19, 2024 Six Reasons to Reconsider Cost Optimisation As senior executives face more pressure to respond to rising costs and eroding profit margins, CFOs can remind their colleagues that they have more cost-optimisation strategies than they might expect.Many business leaders reflexively reach for the headcount-reduction lever. This is understandable given the rising cost of labor and that downsizing and reducing year-end bonuses usually hits the… Blogs December 16, 2022 A New Value Chain Paradigm: Microsoft’s New Supply Chain Platform Protiviti was very pleased to announce its exclusive partnership with Microsoft as the launch of the new Microsoft Supply Chain Platform was unveiled. As a platform that integrates the value chain beyond an enterprise’s four walls, the Microsoft Supply Chain Platform enables collaborations with upstream and downstream partners to deliver transparency and orchestrate the… Blogs April 6, 2023 Why Data Governance Programmes Are Easy to Envision, Difficult to Sustain I am often asked, with all the investments in data management and infrastructure over the last 50 years, why are we still not great with governing data? To put it simply and directly – it’s hard! Data governance programmes are easy to envision conceptually, difficult to implement, and without proper care, impossible to sustain. Often data governance investments have a long ‘time to… Blogs July 31, 2023 Building a ‘metaverse for good’ requires an ethical foundation Nina Jane Patel, Bloomberg's technology columnist, recently entered the metaverse environment Horizon Venues, a newly launched virtual-reality social platform, to have a look for herself. She found the virtual, extended, augmented and mixed reality, along with other Web 3.0 tools, engaging but also a little too real. She unfortunately experienced some “creepy” encounters that included groping,… Blogs April 26, 2023 COSO issues supplemental guidance on internal control over sustainability reporting – With examples Last Thursday, the Committee of Sponsoring Organisations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) released interpretive 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… Load More
