Tagged: compliance technology

DOJ’s Compliance Message: Implement Technology Solutions

DOJ’s revised Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Program Guidance (“DOJ Guidance”) is yet another reminder on how far compliance has evolved and the path forward.  Compliance programs have to incorporate real-time monitoring, rapid data analysis, emphasis on corporate culture and organizational justice build on employee engagement, prompt investigations and consistent discipline.  A compliance program is like a shark – it has to keep moving and evolving. ...

Ethics and Compliance Trends: Humans and Automation, Intelligence and Technology

For me, the year-end retrospectives have become a rite of passage.  While there has been modest changes and trends in the enforcement arena, I am amazed each year at the pace at which compliance as a discipline and a profession continues to move forward. While there is much that is written about compliance and current or immediate trends, in reality, on the ground, compliance as...

Compliance and Technology

We need to start giving compliance a better foundation of basic knowledge, strategies and practical approaches. The compliance profession can adopt common solutions to problems for different companies.  The fact that companies have their own distinct risk profiles and operations does not mean that they have to rely on distinct compliance solutions.  No two companies are alike – that does not mean that the same...

No More Excuses: CCOs Have to Embrace Technology

It is time for an honesty check – many CCOs do not like change. CCOs, however, need to embrace change as a powerful force. Compliance is an evolutionary process – it is constantly changing. A compliance program has to move like a shark and constantly take into account new trends, new risks, and new business developments. CCOs who resist change are doomed to fail. This...

Compliance, Technology and Data Analytics

Compliance professionals cannot do it alone. Of course, CCOs need compliance staff and the collaboration of business, human resources, legal, financial and audit, and related functions in order to succeed. I have made this point over and over (again and again). Along with human and functional resources, CCOs need to embrace technology and data analytics. I have written about the importance of technology to the...