Robert Kugel's Analyst Perspectives

The Value and Limits of the Term “GRC”

Posted by Robert Kugel on Oct 11, 2011 10:40:02 AM

My colleague Mark Smith and I have frequently commented on the artificiality of the emerging software category governance, risk and compliance (GRC). To be sure, once stand-alone categories of software (IT governance, audit documentation and industry-specific compliance management, to name three examples) have started what I expect to be a long convergence process. Moreover, since just about all controls and risk management efforts require a secure IT environment to be effective, there is a growing interdependence between effective IT governance and everything else connected with enterprise GRC.

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Topics: Customer Experience, Governance, GRC, Office of Finance, Operational Performance Management (OPM), enterprise risk management, ERM, Business Performance Management (BPM), compliance, Financial Performance Management (FPM), Risk, controls, IT governance