Institutionalization of IT Compliance: A Longitudinal Study

Against a backdrop of serious corporate and mutual fund scandals, governmental bodies, institutional and private investors have demanded more effective corporate governance structures procedures and systems. The compliance function is now an integral part of corporate policy and practice. This paper presents the findings from a longitudinal qualitative research study on the introduction of an IT-based investment management system at four client sites. Using institutional theory to analyze our data, we find the process of institutionalization follows a non-linear pathway where regulative, normative and cultural forces within the investment management industry produce conflicting organizational behaviours and outcomes

Compliance Requirement for Dealing with Risks, Governance and IT Compliance

The common approaches for a compliance requirement are to manage and identify the risks that an organization faces and advise them on. This paper examined and analyzed the best ways for businesses to adapt and enhance different effective compliance regulations and the key issues that must be enforced by businesses. These approaches help the organizations identify the simplest ways of compliance guidelines for organizations in order to manage and govern the risks.  Due to a massive revolution of technology it is important to notice the IT compliance. Our findings show that IT compliance adaption will help the organizations to better manage the risks and to reduce the cost of the compliance procedure

Beiträge zum IT-Compliance Management

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Information security policy – IT compliance

The South Carolina Budget and Control Board, Division of Information Security publishes enterprise security policies and standards to improve the state's security posture and will align information security with state agency's mission, goals and objectives

Beiträge zu Business Intelligence und IT-Compliance

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“A MINUTE TO CLEAN IT”: COMPLIANCE TO HAND WASHING PRACTICE AMONG HEALTHCARE WORKERS IN ILIGAN CITY

Background:Healthcare-associated infections are the most common adverse event in healthcare, resulting in a significant burden on patients, their families, and health care systems. Hand hygiene is the leading measure for preventing the spread of pathogens and reducing health care associated infections, but health care providers’ adherence to recommended practices remains suboptimal in most settings, and (improvement) maintaining its standards  is difficult to sustain.Objective: This study attempts to explore the degree of compliance among nurses and nursing attendants in the strict implementation of the standards in hand washing practices. Methodology: Quantitative-quasi-experimental design was used to measure their degree of compliance of proper hand hygiene. Using a questionnaire based on the World Health Organization’s “My Five Moments of Hand Hygiene”. Convenience sampling was used in choosing 50 nurses and nursing attendants in selected wards of a hospital in Iligan City. Weighted Mean and Spearman-Rank Correlation was used as statistical tool. The data was encoded for analysis using the IBM-SPSS version 20 software. This study showed that out of the five moments of hand hygiene, (After Body Fluid Exposure Risk Moment) was the most practiced moment of hand washing. This is followed by the (After Touching the Patient Moment). The (Before Clean/ Aseptic Procedure Moment) and (After Touching Patient Surrounding Moment) was tied on third place. Only the (Before Touching a Patient Moment) fell into the “frequently” parameter. The study implies that the respondents were usually compliant to hand washing practices. Strict monitoring and implementation of hand washing protocol must be constantly observed

Compliance Management is Becoming a Major Issue in IS Design

This article aims at improving the information systems management support to Risk and Compliance Management process, i.e. the management of all compliance imperatives that impact an organization, including both legal and stra- tegically self-imposed imperatives. We propose a process to achieve such regula- tory compliance by aligning the Governance activities with the Risk Management ones, and we suggest Compliance should be considered as a requirement for the Risk Management platform. We will propose a framework to align law and IT compliance requirements and we will use it to underline possible directions of investigation resumed in our discussion section. This work is based on an exten- sive review of the existing literature and on the results of a four-month internship done within the IT compliance team of a major financial institution in Switzer- land, which has legal entities situated in different countries

Blister patterns and energy minimization in compressed thin films on compliant substrates

This paper is motivated by the complex blister patterns sometimes seen in thin elastic films on thick, compliant substrates. These patterns are often induced by an elastic misfit which compresses the film. Blistering permits the film to expand locally, reducing the elastic energy of the system. It is natural to ask: what is the minimum elastic energy achievable by blistering on a fixed area fraction of the substrate? This is a variational problem involving both the {\it elastic deformation} of the film and substrate and the {\it geometry} of the blistered region. It involves three small parameters: the {\it nondimensionalized thickness} of the film, the {\it compliance ratio} of the film/substrate pair and the {\it mismatch strain}. In formulating the problem, we use a small-slope (F\"oppl-von K\'arm\'an) approximation for the elastic energy of the film, and a local approximation for the elastic energy of the substrate. For a 1D version of the problem, we obtain "matching" upper and lower bounds on the minimum energy, in the sense that both bounds have the same scaling behavior with respect to the small parameters. For a 2D version of the problem, our results are less complete. Our upper and lower bounds only "match" in their scaling with respect to the nondimensionalized thickness, not in the dependence on the compliance ratio and the mismatch strain. The upper bound considers a 2D lattice of blisters, and uses ideas from the literature on the folding or "crumpling" of a confined elastic sheet. Our main 2D result is that in a certain parameter regime, the elastic energy of this lattice is significantly lower than that of a few large blisters

Basel II versus the global financial crisis

The implementation of Basel II supposes a series of important challenges both for the credit institutions – the adjustment of the risk management and of the information system, the training of the personnel, the obtainment of the data bases. In this context, expected changes will undoubtedly generate, Analyzing USA crisis, IMF pointed out the importance of regulations for this sector, which practically don’t exist in some cases, especially in the case of innovative banking instruments, such as sub prime, derivatives and others.Basel II, global financial crisis, risk management, banking instruments

Taming the cloud: Safety, certification and compliance for software services - Keynote at the Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications (WESOA) 2011

The maturity of IT processes, such as software development, can be and is often certified. Current trends in the IT industry suggest that software systems in the future will be very different from their counterparts today, with an increasing adoption of the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) design pattern and the deployment of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) on Cloud infrastructures. In this talk we discuss some issues surrounding engineering Software Services for Cloud infrastructures and highlight the need for enhanced control, service-level agreement and compliance mechanisms for Software Services. Cloud Infrastructures and Service Mash-ups