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what's worth knowing?COVID-19 – Virtual Classrooms and Online Learning
Coronavirus - COVID-19 Covid-19 This is a very difficult time for all of us and we wanted to send our best wishes to you and your families and to thank you for your loyal custom and support over the years. Like most businesses we have closed our offices, redirected...
Learning from each other
When Mindgrove develops training courses and materials we use three sources of knowledge to help curate our work. 1) We use our own considerable experience - each one of our presenters had prior business experience before they moved into internal audit. ...
Quantum Computing is here
Google claims to be the first company to achieve “Quantum Supremacy” with its new Sycamore quantum computing processor. The search giant has announced in the journal 'Nature' that their programmable superconducting quantum computing processor has breached a major...
Mini module learning
Micro-learning, we'll help you keep in step, a bit at a time Learn with us on line Say goodbye to passive on-line learning: Mindgrove has new technology waiting for you. Here's what Mindgrove offers you Short easily assimilated interesting content at...
Cyber Questions for the Board
As cybercrime becomes the new normal Lead Executives and the Board need to ask some serious questions about their organisation’s Cyber Protection.
Robots: Is it true that they are coming for our jobs?
It’s been known for a while that machine learning and artificial intelligence may replace some forms of work. This article expands on this theme.
GDPR legislation is here, comply now
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...
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...
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...