Thursday, March 22, 2012 3:58:21 AM by
Jon Strother
In many ways the Internet Age has been a second Age of Discovery. No oceans were crossed and no new lands were discovered, and yet 30 years later the internet is still a new and relatively untamed place. Of course, it’s not just a new place but a new kind of place, a virtual world where the rules of the physical world don’t always translate well. As a result, we are still trying to figure out the ethics of online behavior, the right and the wrong of how we interact with each other in a virtual space.
Saturday, March 17, 2012 10:07:27 PM by
Jon Strother
The truth is that great corporate cultures don’t happen by accident, but bad ones do. All it takes is for an organization to look the other way, to focus on other priorities and to believe that its culture will somehow take care of itself.
Wednesday, March 07, 2012 11:21:37 PM by
Jon Strother
What could participating in a forecasting tournament teach me about risk? Not much, I imagined, but I was wrong.
Saturday, March 03, 2012 11:40:25 PM by
Jon Strother
The completed merger expands on each organization’s strengths, providing clients with a single, comprehensive resource to help protect their organizations from adverse risk, enhance their corporate cultures and drive better business results.
Sunday, February 19, 2012 4:54:46 AM by
Jon Strother
There’s a growing demand for organizations to integrate their Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) functions, and convergence seems supported by both common sense and good business sense – so how come so few organizations have actually done it?
Thursday, February 09, 2012 4:55:16 AM by
Jon Strother
Recently, we wrote about the 2011 National Business Ethics Survey. and its finding that as the economy slowly improved, companies’ ethics cultures were weakening. Now, the annual compliance survey conducted by the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) and the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) has been released, and it tells a slightly different story – the compliance function in many organizations is growing stronger
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 1:32:30 AM by
Jon Strother
Global Compliance is excited to announce our intent to merge with ELT Inc. and EthicsPoint, Inc. The combined company will play a leading role in the Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) industry with the capacity to meet the expanding needs of customers all over the world.
Monday, January 30, 2012 12:54:58 AM by
Jon Strother
What planet are social networkers from? You may very well ask that question after reading the Ethics Resource Center’s 2011 National Business Ethics Survey and its startling statistics demonstrating how active social networkers view workplace ethics very differently than their co-workers—and how they tend to be treated differently as well.
Sunday, January 22, 2012 12:07:53 AM by
Jon Strother
The tragic disaster of the cruise ship Costa Concordia capsizing off the coast of Italy provides a stark example of just how important tone from the top can be.
Monday, January 16, 2012 6:36:33 AM by
Jon Strother
A recovering economy is weakening companies’ ethics cultures, but the trend had not yet affected the average employee. But it will.