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Digital Acceleration: The Disruption Imperative

Change can bring new business opportunities for those organizations that are willing to embrace it — or the death knell to those that choose to ignore it. Yet despite that stark choice, organizations appear to be polarized over the pros and cons of disruptive innovation. To help raise the bar on innovation, internal auditors can work with stakeholders to nurture opportunities for disruption and manage the risks of falling behind.

Getting real with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

This report focuses on identifying internal audit’s role in helping to create and integrate a vibrant diversity and inclusion strategy that positively advances an organization’s culture. In addition, it explores how such initiatives might be cascaded throughout an organization and how the effects of these efforts could be recognized and measured.

COVID-19’s Impact on Internal Audit

COVID-19’s effect on organizations and internal audit have been varied. The 2021 North American Pulse of Internal Audit: Many Sides of Crisis shows this disparity in the opportunities the pandemic produced, as well in the costs it extracted. The pandemic’s effects on internal audit were noted across a broad spectrum of reliable survey metrics, including budgets, staffing, risk assessments, and audit plans.

Cyber resiliency: the Risky Six

IIA Global and EY released a joint report, 'The Risky Six: Key questions to expose gaps in board understanding of organizational cyber resiliency.' Practitioners and researchers conducted extensive analysis to determine the root cause of how and why boards get a skewed picture of their organizations’ ability to protect themselves from cyber-related risks. 

Internal Audit’s Digital Transformation

COVID-19’s effect on organizations and internal audit have been varied. The 2021 North American Pulse of Internal Audit: Many Sides of Crisis shows this disparity in the opportunities the pandemic produced, as well in the costs it extracted. The pandemic’s effects on internal audit were noted across a broad spectrum of reliable survey metrics, including budgets, staffing, risk assessments, and audit plans.

COSO ERM Certificate Training

The complexity of enterprise risk has changed. New risks and responsibilities have emerged. But the COSO ERM Certificate program keeps you risk-ready. This program, starting on May 3, offers you 5 morning workshops to pass your certificate. You learn how to apply the integration of ERM with strategy and performance.

Prepare for an external quality assessment

We know what the IIA Standards say, but how do we put these into practice, so that we can pass a Quality Assessment? In his training on May 5, James Paterson makes you understand good practices around an ongoing quality assessment and how to leverage what you are currently doing to get the credit you deserve.

Agents of Change: Internal Auditors in an Era of Disruption

To be ready for the future and reinforce their crucial role in organizations, internal auditors must not only embrace change, but become a catalyst for transformation. That’s the key takeaway in The Institute of Internal Auditors President and CEO Richard F. Chambers’ latest book, Agents of Change: Internal Auditors in an Era of Disruption.

Webinar for IIA members: Advancing the Profession

All IIA members are invited to join the new IIA President and CEO, Anthony J. Pugliese, for a members-only webinar on May 4 or 6. In this session, Anthony will share his personal insight into what brought him back to a global organization, what his vision is for The IIA, and how we can all work together and engage others toward advancing the mission of internal auditing.

Webinar: The impact of COVID-19 on the three lines

The COVID-19 global health crisis has had an unprecedented impact on business and society across the globe. ecoDa, FERMA, and ECIIA are hosting a complimentary webinar on April 19, to look at the changes taking place for their respective professions (board members, risk managers and internal auditors), and how they will need to work together more effectively.