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what's worth knowing?Online Learning
Learn online at your own paceShort easily assimilated content Mindgrove's Learning Modules are short - one to two hour – self-paced study units delivering knowledge in a concise, graphical and interesting way. They are a low-cost way of learning a subject without the...
Working from Home
Controversially, some of us have discovered that we can be more productive working from home, than at the office where distractions are more likely. On balance, however, most of us would like to blend both office and home working together to get the best part from...
Internal Audit and Data Analytics
Working remotely has thrown into the spotlight the way we perform fieldwork, in particular how we test controls or analyse data. Spending some time learning how to explore 100% the data, rather than focussing on a small sample, offers the possibility of gathering...
Virtual Classrooms and Online Learning
Like most organisations we now use our offices much less and work from home much more and have transferred many of our learning programmes to online platforms. As a result, we now have a two-part strategy for learning: Self-Paced Online As online learning grows...
Working from HomeCovid 19 has made this year an exceedingly challenging time for all of us and some of us have already decided to spend more time working from home and less time commuting in the future. In fact, controversially, some of us have discovered that we can...
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...
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...