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		<title>End of year wrap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2011 was an amazing year for us and for our clients as we helped them get the most out of their risk and assurance functions. We gave advice to leading companies on their governance practices. We helped them make the case for an approach to integrated assurance. We saw through a category strategy for internal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.todddavies.com.au/2011/12/23/end-of-year-wrap/</link>
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		<title>GRC &#8211; The Great Risk Con revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Use caution with Forrester Waves and Gartner Magic Quadrants.” Leading GRC Analyst. In 2008 I wrote a piece for Risk Management Magazine called GRC –TheGreat Risk Con. Much to the chagrin of many readers, my article went on to make a number of inflammatory comments ranging from an inference which suggested that anyone who uses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.todddavies.com.au/2011/12/23/grc-the-great-risk-con-revisited/</link>
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		<title>2012 Prophecy &#8211; The death of that great ponzi scheme —the industrial age</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2012 is a year which comes up in a range of mythology as a period of great change. It seems everyone from the Mayans to the Mesoamericans and even Vishnu herself allude to a period of transition and renewal. Given my comments on black swans in the 2010 Christmas edition of this bulletin, I figured [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.todddavies.com.au/2011/12/06/2012-prophecy-the-death-of-that-great-ponzi-scheme-%e2%80%94the-industrial-age/</link>
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		<title>Failing to keep pace with change — the biggest risk of all</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you compare today’s stock exchange list with the same list from 10 years ago, you’ll see some big players missing. Some collapsed. Some lost relevance. Some lost value, and were gobbled up before their market value could be regained. The single thread in nearly all of these cases is simple — the conditions changed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.todddavies.com.au/2011/12/06/failing-to-keep-pace-with-change-%e2%80%94-the-biggest-risk-of-all/</link>
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		<title>Risk management &#8211; part of the problem or part of the solution?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Todd Davies asks if a changing environment is a new norm – and explains how risk professionals can cope Change is happening at a greater scale than ever before. We see it every day. This creates great uncertainty for the organisations that we serve, and should be a boon for us as risk professionals. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.todddavies.com.au/2011/09/22/part-of-problem-part-of-solution/</link>
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		<title>Could internal audit have prevented the News Corp Scandal?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Viewpoint Could the internal audit team at News Corp have identified and clamped down on the illegal activities of their journalists?  Todd Davies doesn&#8217;t think so. The News of the World scandal is causing ripple effects around the world, with commentators in Australia and abroad beginning to ask questions about News Corp’s corporate governance. They [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.todddavies.com.au/2011/08/21/internal-audit-news-corp/</link>
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		<title>Strategic Risk Management?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Todd Davies has been championing a better understanding on strategic risk for many years and taught the IIA's first courses on this topic.

He contends that strategic risk is a class of risk in it's own right and needs a dedicated identification process involving external viewpoints.  TDA's other articles on this topic can be found here.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.todddavies.com.au/2011/08/21/strategic-risk-management/</link>
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		<title>Why internal audit practice always lags and GRC snakeoil salesmen are alive and well</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The transitory nature of the internal audit profession means capabilities in practices are always on a slippery slope, taking two steps forward, one step back. In this month&#8217;s column in Risk Management Magazine I tease this out a little with some views on what needs to be done. Please click on the image above to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.todddavies.com.au/2011/05/24/why-internal-audit-practice-always-lags-and-grc-snakeoil-salesmen-are-alive-and-well/</link>
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		<title>Time to Mandate Internal Audit?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Starting this month I&#8217;ll be doing a regular column in Risk Magazine on leading practices and recent developments in internal audit, risk and assurance. In this month&#8217;s edition, I endeavour to make the case for why we need regulatory change in Australia.  It&#8217;s amazing how a 400 word limit forces you to be concise. To [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.todddavies.com.au/2011/04/22/time-to-mandate-internal-audit/</link>
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		<title>Need for change to ASX Corporate Governance Principles &#8211; Risk Assurance?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks again to Lexis Nexis for making my most recent article available from the latest issue of Risk Management Today. As the ASX Corporate Governance Council gears up for its next round of review, the IIA has got on the front foot with their list of demands.  This brief article gives Risk Management Today readers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.todddavies.com.au/2011/03/30/need-for-change-to-asx-corporate-governance-principles-risk-assurance/</link>
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