by Sikandar Usmani | Sep 10, 2026 | Governance, Internal Audit
Steve Jobs had a point! For not being a fan of consultants. He was a visionary, a revolutionary and an absolute brilliance. It’s hard to move on from his words without pondering over them. His words continue to resonate more than 3 decades later! He was that sort of a...
by Sikandar Usmani | Aug 31, 2026 | Uncategorised
Exactly! What good governance is if there aren’t any principles to care for? If we aren’t going to be responsible for our conduct? If we aren’t going to be accountable to anyone for our actions and inaction? If we aren’t going to be answerable for our decisions? And...
by Sikandar Usmani | Aug 20, 2026 | Internal Audit
“Woe upon us!” If you let me start off. Better have me for the optics of it all. We’re good to have, to show and to boast about. And maybe because someone should be watching, not from above but from within, behind the scenes, watching and taking observations but not...
by Sikandar Usmani | Aug 10, 2026 | Governance
Because for most managements, I’ve experienced it’s hard to grasp. Not just the independence concept but the reason why it matters or should matter. They are at a loss to understand, why would someone think or act independently and not get along with the management’s...
by Sikandar Usmani | Jul 31, 2026 | Internal Audit
The exciting dashboards, the flashy presentations, the infinite tools, the fancy deliverables, the AI mastery, are all good coupled with the ability to invest resources in these at will. Apparently, that is all that matters. Especially when it is said, seeing is...
by Sikandar Usmani | Jul 20, 2026 | GRC
Yeah, it’s still toiling even with a most promising tool. For both the excited ones and the uninitiated ones! It’s also because it requires learning a new skill that was unheard of before; managing and dealing with the ‘humanized’ tech! Because the humanized tech...
by Sikandar Usmani | Jul 10, 2026 | GRC, Internal Audit
How about a truth to power metric for evaluating the internal audit’s performance? How about a performance that evaluates the entity’s performance based on this metric? Isn’t the entity’s performance evaluated against its purpose, goals and objectives? Aren’t...
