governance
It’s all about the risk
Compliance. Aka an unnecessary cost. Aka a painful thing that must be done. And it’s about to get worse.
IT gets in on King III action
For the first time, the King Report on Corporate Governance includes a chapter on IT governance.
E-governance must precede e-government
Adam Rabie is MD of Bytes Public Sector Authorities For effective e-government to be realised, e-governance must first be firmly entrenched, as Adam Rabie, MD of Bytes Public Sector Authorities, explains.
Governance demand to increase
The worldwide economic downturn is likely to bring governance into the spotlight as a competitive advantage, for those that have it.
The king is coming
King II is here. As of 1 July a whole new raft of recommendations with a whole lot of implications for IT became your, yes, your, problem. Or did they?
Social conscience
Worldwide investment in sustainable energy more than doubled over a twoyear period, from 2004 to 2006, according to the United Nations Environmental Programme (Unep) 2008 year book, an annual overview of the changing global environment.
The end of sustainability as we know it?
The golden era of the sustainability paradigm is over, replaced by a global governance flux in which competing powers fight for dominance.
Sniffing out the bad apples
The King II Report on Corporate Governance defines ‘transparency’ – one of the key characteristics of corporate governance – as the ease with which an outsider is able to make a meaningful analysis of a company’s action, its economic fundamentals and the non-financial aspects pertinent to the business.