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 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 | 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 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...
by Sikandar Usmani | Jun 30, 2026 | Internal Audit
Big reveal, like the type(s) I like, later! The title should be concerning enough for the internal auditors and not for the clients. Since clients often confuse nature, methodologies, domains and scope of internal audit engagements as its types. But some clients have...
by Sikandar Usmani | May 23, 2026 | Internal Audit
Isn’t it right? Isn’t it that diversity of talent and skillset and divergence of opinions are recipes for success and fuel growth? I get it, the ‘same page’ principle is what people like to tout and promote but that shouldn’t be and can’t be before ideation, before...
