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July 17, 2026
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Third-Party Exit Planning: Prepare for the Worst, Plan for Control

Exit planning has become a critical element of the third-party risk management lifecycle as organisations contend with a rapidly evolving threat landscape and increasingly disruptive events. Protiviti’s 2026 Executive Perspectives on Top Risks and Opportunities survey ranks third-party risk as the second-highest near-term global risk.
Driven by stringent global privacy regulations, consumer privacy and security are top of mind for technology executives. Compliance with these regulations requires organisations to think through their approach to collecting, securing, managing access to, and deleting customer data.
Cloud infrastructure has emerged as a critical factor for driving business success. Ensuring cloud resilience isn’t just desirable, it’s essential as application downtime means lost revenue. A comprehensive approach to cloud resilience ensures that when failures occur, systems can recover quickly, continue to deliver value and maintain business continuity in the face of disruptions. This approach, known as…
While the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) that took effect in January 2023 is primarily disclosure-oriented, the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) is all about action.
Embracing emerging technologies to drive business growth is a common focus for forward-thinking leaders. Businesses are pursuing technology modernisation initiatives to enhance their competitiveness, efficiency and agility. These initiatives aim to upgrade and improve an organisation’s technology infrastructure, systems, software and practices.
As organisations transition to SAP S/4HANA and SAP cloud solutions, they often discover that GRC capabilities and processes also need to be updated on a more frequent basis. One example of a continuously changing dataset is the segregation of duties (SoD) ruleset. With S/4HANA, the GRC ruleset now supports monitoring many new access types including Fiori apps and HANA database access. 
The challenging workforce ecosystem for manufacturers and distributors in Singapore shows no sign of easing, as companies in the industry have hundreds of thousands of open positions and are struggling to retain key talent. Compounded by a highly competitive labor market, an aging workforce and increased digitisation of factory operations, the labor deficit is hampering productivity and growth.
As the stakes increase for ensuring the integrity of sustainability reports, CFOs across all industries should not only consider adding the ESG controller role in the finance function but also determine where it sits in the organisational structure and how a newly appointed ESG controller can be positioned to succeed.
The urgent need to develop a successful competitive strategy and align your supply chain to it has become apparent in recent years. So why haven’t successful implementations of enterprise technology systems kept pace to support this critical need? The issue is that many of the core characteristics of enterprise applications – complex configurations, lengthy implementations, extensive testing and big-dollar budgets…
Operational resilience – the ability for firms to prevent, adapt, respond to, recover and learn from operational disruptions – is a common concern for clients in Singapore, leading to questions such as: Which management information should firms report against? Or, how can organisations advance testing beyond tabletop scenarios? While the answers often depend on specific contexts, leveraging available data across the…
Sustainable sourcing, an emerging trend only a decade ago, is converging with strategic sourcing to become a fundamental component of business strategy. This reflects a broader move toward more ethical and environmentally responsible supply chains – a shift driven by regulatory requirements, customer expectations, technology advances and the realisation of long-term benefits of sustainable practices. 
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