The folks at the Open Compliance & Ethics Group have been developing a professional education and certification program for governance, risk management and compliance professionals. Basically, it’s a program that helps to build on existing credentials and “round out” an executive’s skills so that they are more effective at integrating all of these processes (e.g., [...]
The 2010 OCEG GRC Achievement Awards Presentation
on May 25, 2010 in Conference Notes, GRC
The Open Compliance and Ethics Group will recognize the great strides that many organizations have made in improving and integrating their approaches to governance, risk management, and compliance. The winners were: Best Buy – Ethics blog for employees Capital One – GRC implementation Carnival Corporation – Integrated approach to GRC Management Direct TV- Embedding spreadsheet [...]
Red Book 2.0 Released by OCEG with the GRC Capability Model
on April 14, 2009 in Compliance Programs
The Open Compliance and Ethics Group has released the second version of its Red Book about compliance models. OCEG’s Red Book 2.0 provides a guide for implementing and managing a GRC system or aspect of that system. That means Governance, Risk, and Compliance. Red Book 1, which came out in 2005, focused on “getting the [...]
Compliance Boundaries
on December 10, 2008 in Compliance Programs
One way to view compliance policies is grouping them into mandatory and voluntary policies. Mandatory are those dictated by law. Voluntary are those the organization has imposed to futher business objectives and manage risk. Thanks to Carole Switzer, President of OCEG for this perspective.
IT for GRC: Improving Information Quality
on December 4, 2008 in GRC, IT Compliance
Carole Switzer, President of OCEG and Lee Dittmar, principal of Deloitte Consulting LLP presented this webinar. There is an imperative to improve governance, risk management and compliance processes to better manage risk, address increasing regulatory requirements, increased executive accountability and the fragmentation of information. It is about getting the right information, to the right person, [...]
Leading Corporate Integrity: Defining the Role of the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer
on November 20, 2008 in Compliance Programs
Fellows of the Ethics Resource Center, Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics, the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association, the Open Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG), and the Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics put together Leading Corporate Integrity: Defining the Role of the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer (pdf). Senior corporate executives are under great [...]
A Unified Approach to GRC
on October 29, 2008 in Compliance Programs, GRC
A participated in a webinar by Carole Stern Switzer of OCEG and Sumner Blount of CA, Inc. on Unified Governance, Risk and Compliance. Governance – the culture, policies, processes, laws and institutions the define the structure by which companies are directed and managed. Risk – the effect of uncertainty on business objectives. Compliance – The [...]
Compliance and Ethics Training – How Much is Enough
on October 23, 2008 in Training
In this podcast panel discussion, OCEG’s Carole Switzer moderates a discussion with ELT’s Shanti Atkins and SAI Global’s Mark Rowe to answer the question of how much is enough when it comes to compliance and ethics training. You can listen to a webcast and read a transcript (.pdf). Ms. Atkins talks about a three layers [...]
OCEG Webcast on Code of Conduct
on October 21, 2008 in Code of Conduct
Scott Mitchell, Chairman and of the Open Compliance & Ethics Group, and Brett Curran, Director of GRC and Privacy at Axentis, conducted a webinar on the Code of Conduct. The powerpoint slides are free, but the webinar itself requires a premium membership. These are some metrics they propose for measuring the performance of a Code [...]
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