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  1. World's funniest Venn diagrams: http://bit.ly/8PlZI
  2. Good article on healthcare debate from NYT: http://bit.ly/1OxK4H
  3. Brief GRC break: Go Pedro! Beat those Yanks tonight!
  4. A majority (53%) of companies have automated only 20% of their #compliance controls (src: KPMG). Only 4% have 80% automation.
  5. Interesting interview with one of the originators of what became the internet, Leonard Kleinrock: http://bit.ly/3xu2EB
  6. Good blog from Ian Yip (GRC analyst) about the new release of GRC Manager 2.5: http://bit.ly/4sQjys
  7. How GRC can help CIOs manage compliance globally...article (from 2008) from Smart Enterprise magazine: http://bit.ly/3DFpa3
  8. Excellent article on GRC from Smart Enterprise: http://bit.ly/2owL6i
  9. is #compliance getting harder? US Fed. Register of regulations has grown from 16 pgs (1936) to 11,000 pgs (1959) to 80,000 pgs in 2008!
  10. @bostonbluegrass Would you be willing to give up this name for the Boston Bluegrass Union? maybe some trade? thx! sumner.blount@gmail.com
  11. What are some key success factors for a GRC program? Here's my thoughts on it: http://bit.ly/2RhaOz
  12. 45% of companies do NOT link #riskmgt to corp performance. So, they have no way to track this important relationship. Only 37% do. (PWC)
  13. here's my interview on Risk IQ, and how it indicates the level of #riskmgt maturity. http://bit.ly/4ubdhf
  14. political aside: in 1981, 8% of bankruptcy filings were due to medical costs. In 2007, it's 62%! The human impact: http://bit.ly/5KiC5
  15. now here's a REALLY disappointed Red Sox fan. http://bit.ly/CjCHH We should tell him to just "wait til next year"
  16. @robinbloor: the longest english word without any letters above or below the lines is: renaissance (useless trivia of the day)
  17. humor interlude: a really funny twitterer......I bet he will remind everyone of someone in their life: http://twitter.com/shitmyda...
  18. what are the key benefits of unified GRC? Read my latest blog on it from #GRCSummit2009: http://bit.ly/mecqZ
  19. from #GRCsummit2009: there's a 30% CAGR in unstructure data. Biggest culprits: IM and email (not surprising)
  20. Attending #GRCSummit2009. Interesting stat: on average, 70-80% of compliance spreadsheets have significant errors in them. Yikes!