Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Whitepaper February 8, 2023 Building Sustainable Data Governance Programmes with Agile Concepts The digital revolution has led to an explosive growth in the amount of data created and collected, driving businesses to seek new ways to manage and discover value in the data they hold. In turn, the growth of stored data has been a longstanding management problem, which if not addressed can lead to potential vulnerabilities, data misuse, and possible data loss. Whitepaper April 2, 2024 Enabling Enterprise AI Adoption Through Next-Generation Governance Artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly important in the enterprise, thanks in part to the rise of generative AI (GenAI). While not a new technology or concept, AI (including machine learning) holds tremendous promise to transform various business functions and activities worldwide — from accounting and finance to cybersecurity, customer experience and more. In boardrooms and C-suite… 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… 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… Survey February 21, 2024 2024 Top Risks for Chief Audit Executives CAEs see a riskier near- and long-term environment than do most of their colleagues in the executive suite. Of all C-level respondents to our latest Top Risks Survey, internal audit leaders ascribe the highest-magnitude ratings to risks they expect to challenge their organisation’s ability to achieve its performance objectives during the next 12 months. Whitepaper September 16, 2020 The Road to Resiliency – Building a Robust Audit Plan for Operational Resilience Executive Summary The financial services industry has long relied on internal audit functions to assess and challenge the effectiveness of various programmes designed to protect and build organisational value. These programmes have included disaster recovery, business continuity, risk management, cybersecurity, and many others designed to help institutions recover from an event. The pressure… Newsletter December 12, 2021 Setting the 2022 Audit Committee Agenda In prior years, there have been unique enterprise, process and technology risk issues and financial reporting issues for audit committees to consider in addition to the normal ongoing activities articulated within the committee’s charter. These exciting, unprecedented times continue to evolve the committee’s agenda. We discuss the agenda items for 2022 in this issue of The Bulletin and… Infographic February 21, 2024 Infographic | 2024 Top Risks for Chief Audit Executives Recognizing the interplay of near-term and future risks is essential for comprehensive enterprise-wide risk management. Such reflection and evaluation offer CAEs valuable insights into how these intertwined risks can impact an organization's strategic success and long-term viability. Survey March 9, 2023 Achieving Audit Relevance As internal audit functions face a continuing talent crunch and demands to support the organisation’s strategic moves in response to external events, chief audit executives (CAEs) are focused on growing internal audit’s relevance with the board, senior executives and other stakeholders. For internal audit functions, elevating their relevance requires ongoing evolution and a committed focus on… Newsletter December 9, 2022 Setting the 2023 Audit Committee Agenda As in prior years, our suggested 2023 audit committee agenda includes important enterprise, process and technology issues and financial reporting and disclosure issues. In addition to discussing these agenda items, we have offered questions for audit committees to consider when self-assessing their own performance with respect to executing the normal ongoing activities articulated in the… Load More