by Sikandar Usmani | Apr 1, 2026 | GRC
Indeed, the situation could be that dire. The world as we know and have known is being robbed of the natural or let me say organic intellect with the premise of enhanced productivity and efficiency where it all started. Ever since the transition from the industrial...
by Sikandar Usmani | Sep 11, 2025 | GRC
Kudos on earning a world full of chaos! What exactly was our endeavor? Making our lives easier, better, improving its quality? By becoming inorganic from organic? By ceding space to artificial from natural? By promoting what’s built in laboratories on support against...
by Sikandar Usmani | Jul 21, 2025 | GRC, Internal Audit
How many times do we internal auditors get flattered by laurels such as this one? They come in plenty and in many forms if you had been noticing and keeping track of them! The meaning behind is plain and simple, stop being a pain in the a**; the internal auditors not...
by Sikandar Usmani | Jul 10, 2025 | GRC
Can a birdie take off with its wings clipped? Can you rise high when you’ve nothing to stand on or more appropriately when you’re falling flat? Can you lift off without a platform underneath to stand on? Can a business grow when it is on a losing spree? Without a...
by Sikandar Usmani | May 20, 2025 | GRC
Be it for best practices sake or conforming to a single globally acceptable elevated performance level or benchmark of quality, a minimum desired or a highest possible end result or a burdening requirement for compliance, standards influence our everyday lives in more...
by Sikandar Usmani | Jan 11, 2025 | GRC
It’s not always the organization’s threshold for risk acceptance that gives an idea of its strength, resilience and possible growth trajectory. There’s an even important measure when these are to be assessed; the threshold for accepting mediocrity! In fact, this...