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18 Dec 2025 NAVEX Editorial Team
Building a compliance program with limited resources starts with consistency, not perfection. Learn how SMB leaders turn practical steps into lasting culture change.
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13 Jan 2021 Matt Kelly
Congress gave compliance professionals quite the gift on New Year’s Day: a new whistleblower awards program that will allow compliance officers an easier path to seek awards, regardless of whether you raise those misconduct concerns internally. Here’s what compliance needs to know.
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11 Jan 2021 MaryAnn Rains
As we embrace 2021, we would be remiss to move forward without pulling lessons learned from 2020. From organizational trust, to fraud risk, to supply-chain management - the lessons are not in short supply. Here are 7 top tips from our most popular blogs of 2020.
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5 Jan 2021 Andrew Burt
Every year, we make – and struggle to keep – New Year resolutions. Here are some useful commitments for your risk and compliance program that can help give you a strong start to the New Year.
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29 Dec 2020 Andrew Burt
2020 is (almost) over. But before saying goodbye, we should heed its COVID-inspired lessons – or risk being haunted by the ghosts of past, present and future compliance failures!
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22 Dec 2020 NAVEX Editorial Team
New frontiers and emerging technologies are changing the roles and responsibilities of compliance professionals, along with the risks they face - raising pressing questions that risk and compliance need answered. Luckily, our experts have done just that.
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3 Dec 2020 MaryAnn Rains
Navigating COVID-19 (and beyond) requires resiliency, flexibility, innovation, and a plan. Here are four steps to build an integrated risk and compliance based back-to-work plan – and the questions you should be asking along the way.
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24 Nov 2020 French Caldwell
What is integrated risk management (IRM) and how is it different from traditional GRC? Dr. French Caldwell uses his experience aboard a nuclear submarine to demonstrate what compliance professionals need to focus on IRM in 2021.
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19 Nov 2020 Carrie Penman
Strong corporate compliance goes hand-in-glove with strong enterprise risk management. That’s the theory, anyway. Here’s how 2020 guidance published by COSO and the SCCE helps compliance and risk officers put that theory into practice.
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17 Nov 2020 NAVEX Editorial Team
How do ethics and strong organizational values cultivate success throughout the company and beyond? Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield discusses ethics at the heart of successful business and how sticking to social responsibility as a core value made Ben & Jerry’s one of the least conventional success stories in American business.
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12 Nov 2020 NAVEX Editorial Team
How have recent events and continuing trends impacted the development and importance of diversity and inclusion efforts, and what do those changes mean for the future of DEI programs? Former EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum, educator and D&I specialist Patrice Palmer, and NAVEX Global Vice President of HR and Organizational Development Cindy Raz discuss.
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10 Nov 2020 Matt Kelly
If the business operations people are responsible for managing the risk, what does compliance do? How should compliance officers monitor and guide that risk management happening in the operations?
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4 Nov 2020 Andrew Burt
Since January of 2020, the SEC has awarded $328 million through its whistleblower program. But what prompted this recent flurry of action – and what does it mean for compliance professionals?
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27 Oct 2020 Andrew Burt
Regulators and prosecutors are signaling organizations need to adopt technology solutions to meet rising expectations. But what exactly should those solutions do, and what benefits can they bring? NAVEX Global’s 2020 Risk and Compliance Benchmark Report has answers.
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20 Oct 2020 NAVEX Editorial Team
If your board is looking for fewer reports from your company’s whistleblower hotline, you’re in trouble. Regardless of how well your hotline performs, organizations typically make the same mistakes. Avoid these 3 common hotline mistakes to increase the value of reporting.
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15 Oct 2020 MaryAnn Rains
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way the world conducts business - and as businesses adapt to the new normal, return-to-work planning is top of mind. Here are five steps to lay the groundwork and identify priorities, so you can plan a safe return to work with a risk-based approach.
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