In our first Member Forum Call of 2021, our Senior Advisors and Subject Matter Experts offered predictions for the months ahead along with compelling reasons to join the Shared Assessments member community. (Member Forum Calls offer the opportunity to earn CPE credits...
This paper provides a quick overview and concrete action steps that will help organizations achieve superior outcomes over time. Traditional approaches that rely solely on point-in-time assessments can no longer keep up with rapidly changing or emerging risks....
The Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM) gathered subject matter experts to discuss cybersecurity in the supply chain in a LinkedIn Live forum. (ASCM is a non-profit, global leader in supply chain organizational transformation, innovation and leadership.)...
This briefing paper provides a foundation for a more robust TPRM style – one that applies complex adaptive systems to the field of risk management to help practitioners understand step-function, cascading improvements in risk management processes they can apply to...
H.P. Lovecraft (American poet influenced by Edgar Allen Poe) wrote “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” The Nth party is “the fear of the unknown”: you cannot see them, you do not have...
From the ways we teach, learn and work to the COVID-19 vaccine itself, we’ve been challenged to develop new modes of accomplishing our work this year. This change has demanded that trends in Risk Management accelerate. We've seen Virtual Assessments, Automation,...
Third Party Risk is increasingly a topic addressed in board rooms. As Rocco Grillo (Managing Director, Global Cyber Risk Services, Alvarez and Marshal) notes “the C-Suite and Board members are critical to the success and effectiveness of any TPRM program. Successful...
Like most industries, in Risk Management, acronyms abound. Let’s sort through the acronym soup to understand the most important KRIs (Key Risk Indicators) and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) for TPRM (Third Party Risk Management) or VRM (Vendor Risk Management). We...
The “Skirt Length Theory” of economics says that when the economy is performing well, women's skirts will be shorter, and in turn, skirts will be longer during downturns. Looking back at 2020, it is difficult to assess fashion trends as Go-To-Meeting and Zoom captured...
Over my lunch hour ….such as it is in the work-from-home era…..I attended the Wall Street Journal Live Journalism session on the Future of Work. This blogpost gives a brief summary of the event and considers where The Santa Fe Group/Shared Assessments stands, or...