GRC, ECN, EMC World, Feng Shui – Oh Boy!

InFocus Weekly Roundup: “As in life, we collect things and at some point we become burdened by the very same things we have collected.” JP Morgenthal describes the function of chargeback and showback models as Feng Shui for your compute environment.    Welcome to our newest blogger, Rachel Haines, who leads EMC Consulting’s Data Governance

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InFocus Gets Social, Secure, Futuristic? and More – Weekly Round Up March 2, 2012

This week we peer through Matt’s visionary perspective about the future of home and personal health care technology ; We find out if being different, is better, when providing services to your customers, and take a look at the future of SMS in the face of newer and “cooler” social media techologies.   We get some clarity on the

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Contracts Management: Mitigate Risk and Establish Your Next Profit Center
Written on June 29, 2011 by in Business Markets, Compliance, Governance, Risk, Trust

Although contracts underlie virtually every business relationship, companies fail to adequately manage commercial contracts professionally, which in turn can cost them billions of dollars worldwide every year. Adopting an Enterprise Contract Management (ECM) strategy can generate serious revenues and cost savings while minimizing business risk. What is ECM? Quite simply, it is the practice of

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Hiding in Plain Sight
Written on June 16, 2011 by in Compliance, Healthcare, Risk, Trust

When I go to a doctor’s office, a hospital, a pharmacy – any organization that is a “covered entity” responsible for compliance with the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules – I play a little game called “Spot the HIPAA Violation.” I see how many violations there are in plain sight. It is amazing to me

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Privacy and GRC – What the New Ponemon Study and the GAPP is Telling Us
Written on May 25, 2011 by in Compliance, Governance, Risk, Trust

Many organizations get their first taste of the promise and power of a GRC program when they begin to implement a Privacy Program. Why? Because privacy is an enterprise issue that spans legal, IT, compliance and business operations. Privacy regulations vary by jurisdiction, and at times may be in conflict.  In fact, privacy regulations are

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