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Faced with the technical, compliance and data security challenges of launching Microsoft 365 across their global enterprise, a large financial services and investment institution needed to successfully deploy Microsoft 365 to its 30,000 employees while ensuring governance, compliance and data security. Because of the size and complexity of their firm, the financial institution had concerns with…
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Healthcare organisations are under growing pressure to meet compliance obligations, maintain profit margins, optimise the revenue cycle functions and reduce risk. Most risks in the healthcare industry are exacerbated by provider organisations performing a variety of services and having decentralised operations across multiple states — risks audit and compliance functions must address. Some…
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At a price tag of almost $50 billion per year,[1] retail industry losses due to inventory shrinkage are significant. Measuring inventory shrink is a must because it directly impacts gross profit and businesses cannot improve on what they cannot or do not measure — and inventory is no different.
Measuring shrink is challenging, particularly if inventory processes lack transparency or the…
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Smaller firms can’t afford to be heavily dependent on technical consultants or bound to a portfolio of siloed applications that don’t provide the ability to track data. Recently, the visionary leader of a healthcare professional association freed her business from these dilemmas. But the flexibility and strength her small team stood to gain from their digital transformation initiative were…
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Apparel company enhances key processes, customer experience using insights from shoppers’ digital sentiments
Businesses generate vast amounts of data every single day, mostly so-called dark data or information that go unused. Long before the current pandemic-driven e-commerce boom, a search technology firm estimated that 7.5 septillion gigabytes of data were generated by businesses worldwide…
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Studying the cosmos has transformed our understanding of how planets, stars and galaxies form, and revealed deeper insights into the fundamental nature of the universe. Astrophysicists and cosmologists pursue this knowledge, in effect, by looking into the past. Using cutting-edge technology like that employed in the James Webb Space Telescope, they examine places that existed billions of years…
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“Outsourcing and other third-party relationships can bring multiple benefits to FIs, including: enhanced operational resilience; faster and more tailored financial products and services; cost reduction; greater innovation; and improved internal processes. However, outsourcing and third-party relationships can give rise to new or different risks to FIs and potentially to financial stability that…
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Are you interested in becoming a quantum coder? The job market looks as large as the machines are cold. We’re all struggling in the quantum computing industry to find talent. Do you have what it takes? You may even be able to get started with less experience than you think. Join host Konstantinos Karagiannis for a chat about the path to this exciting career with Peter Noell from ColdQuanta.…
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Actionable Insights into Implementing your Advanced ERM Program
We conducted the first-ever ERM diagnostic survey for the Middle East with the objective to help regional companies evaluate their ERM preparedness and sensitize them about the need to invest in and integrate ERM. Responses from C-suite-level respondents were assessed for several ERM best practices and the companies were mapped into…
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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced businesses to embrace digital technologies. As risks and complexities faced by entities change with the emerging situation, internal audit functions also need to go through a transformation journey and equip themselves with new skills and capabilities.
Some of the key trends affecting the internal audit profession currently are:
Proliferation of data resulting…
