Imagine Using an Adaptive Compliance Tool - Episode 202

Struggling with compliance chaos? Join the CU Guys as they uncover how adaptive solutions can transform your compliance process. In this episode, Adam shares insights from his decade of experience, revealing how to streamline compliance with dynamic mapping and adaptable tools like the TCT Portal. Learn to cut time, reduce risks, and save money by customizing workflows and eliminating redundant efforts. Perfect for compliance teams and leaders eager to see real cost savings and efficiency. Tune in to revolutionize your compliance strategy today!

Episode Transcript:

We're gonna chat today, Adam, about, well, about using our imagination. As a matter of fact, let's imagine using an adaptive compliance tool. Tell the folks about it.

Sure. This is a topic that's, it's just, it's applicable for folks that are struggling with compliance, ones that are already familiar with the landscape, et cetera. It's a inventive and special kind of torture that people go through when you're trying to fit your compliance program into some type of a rigid structure or setup. At some point in the game, the light bulbs start going on, or maybe not, that you're spending more time screwing around with manual workarounds, bridging gaps between what you'd like to do and what you're actually doing, et cetera.

And there's a lot of tooling out there and there's compliance platforms. They were built in a kind of a best case scenario mindset, initially up against a single standard, and then they started shoehorning in other ones, type of a deal. Somebody that was originally when they started doing things, this is the way they did it. So they built a whole platform around that, and now everybody that uses it is kind of stuck with it, type of a deal. So for folks that are juggling different certs or have some complexity to their engagement, they've got different divisions across the globe, et cetera, then that's where you start moving away from that kind of best case scenario type of a deal. And so it's part of the fun, the adventure that we've been on is we've seen how frustrating it can be to manage a compliance, a compliance engagement that has complexity because we've been through it ourselves.

We've experienced as a organization that's gone through compliance. We've assisted and helped innumerable organizations with managing their compliance. We've worked alongside assessors and auditors. I personally spent close to two years doing level one QA work for a large international QSA firm. So it's been a rewarding adventure to navigate the waters of seeing what was out there and then being able to serve folks that are in this space. And it's also important for folks. One of the biggest things that I like to tell people is a lot of people will kind of get into this mode. They do whatever they do to be able to manage their compliance. And they get it to a point where it's almost like, I'm capable of getting this done. And so they go, oh, that's cool. We're just going to go and stick with that. So they get into this point of where it works, AKA they accomplished the objective.

But my big recommendation is for those folks, especially if I look at it from the perspective of those in leadership as an example, I love to use this talking point a fair amount because I remember as a frontline person responsible for compliance for the organization, my boss would just swoop by my desk type of a deal. And hey, it's compliance season again. Good luck. Make sure that we have all our crap done by blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then he would flip off type of a deal. And between the good luck and where's my fucking report, There was a whole bunch of blood, sweat, tears, pain, stress, you know, but a lot of that happened.