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what's worth knowing?Mini module learning
Micro-learning, keep in step, a little at a time Learning on line Organisations are wary when it comes to online learning as there is a commonly held idea that online learning is dull, time consuming and delivers few benefits. This idea is way behind what we have to...
Cyber Questions for the Board
Robots: Is it true that they are coming for our jobs?
Culture – Culture is Trouble with a Capital ‘C’.
The Trouble with CultureCulture Organisations have yet to get to grips with culture. There is a commonly held idea that by stating values for the organisation, that everyone within the organisation will live up to those values. This idea fails since so many...
GDPR legislation is here, comply now or face paying out significant fines
Enforcement of the GDPR Data Privacy regulations is on top of us now. As an Internal Auditor, Compliance or Risk specialist you will recognise that with potential penalties of up to €20M of 4% of turnoverfor failure to comply in the worst case, this should focus the...
Are you in the mood for writing? The challenge of report writing.
In the Mood for writing - yes? What even in these cold dark days? You must be special, because most of us struggle with writing, particularly when the weather is grim and the days are short. You've heard about it in the movies and you've probably felt it yourself....
Auditors and Data Analytics.
Auditors and Data Analytics Getting up to Speed! Auditors are getting up to speed with the use of data extraction, data analysis and data matching. Furthermore, many audit teams decide during the planning phase of audits, whether testing should be driven by Computer...
Cyberattack and cybercrime floors organisations.
Cyberattack. It gives us no pleasure to say this, but on a Cybercrime course we ran in Scotland only three weeks ago we suggested that basic precautions against cyberattacks, such as keeping patches bang up to date, were often lacking in some of the organisations that...
Training Events by Mindgrove for you.
We've populated our events calendar with training events that Mindgrove will be running. See them by selecting the 'Upcoming Events' option from our training menu. Some of the events are in Manchester (typically city centre) and some in London (typically W1). Most...
Report writing – the issues for auditors.
Report writing - love it or hate it? Most of us, at least when we start, struggle to write an audit report. The difficult stems from two issues: firstly we are not sure about the required content, even though our team has a template to help do this. Secondly,...