This week’s blog sees Dan Anderton guest blogging for us on the SOX Compliance front again. His detailed articles will be a help to anyone looking for help with their SOX project. Have a great weekend.
Mike Cunningham
The problems with setting goals
Posted in Change Management, Process Discovery, Process Mapping, Project Management on Jul 28th, 2011
After completing a recent setting goals class with men in a local prison, some important points came to light that we sometimes miss in our Process Improvement projects. These were: The importance of short term goals versus longer term ones Goals that support an overall objective should be tied together The interdependencies of goals [...]
Upside down Procedures and Processes
Posted in Change Management, Process Mapping on Jul 27th, 2011
Are we looking at it all wrong? Do you ever get the feeling that you are seeing something very different than the other guy? I don’t just mean the glass half full/empty outlook on life, but fundamentally are we looking at things the wrong way? I sometimes get that feeling when dealing with projects [...]
How to evaluate operating effectiveness of your company Part 2 of 2
Posted in Compliance on Jul 26th, 2011
HOW TO EVALUATE AND CONCLUDE ON THE OPERATING EFFECTIVENESS OF YOUR COMPANY LEVEL MONITORING CONTROLS (Part 2 or 2) Again, as part of your SOX compliance efforts, don’t forget about your Company level monitoring controls. Rather than too merely highlight what Company level monitoring controls are, I thought it would be more informative to share [...]
How to Evaluate Company monitoring controls (Part 1 of 2)
Posted in Compliance on Jul 25th, 2011
HOW TO EVALUATE AND CONCLUDE ON THE OPERATING EFFECTIVENESS OF YOUR COMPANY LEVEL MONITORING CONTROLS (Part 1 or 2) As part of your SOX compliance efforts, don’t forget about your Company level monitoring controls. Rather than too merely highlight what Company level monitoring controls are, I thought it would be more informative to share an [...]
