What does an analytics-driven compliance program look like? Or, more precisely — when you harness the full potential of data analytics, what does that allow you to do?

Let's put communication tools to work. Compliance professionals know marketing-style communication tactics can help achieve compliance goals. Create lasting behavior change using a variety of reminders.

Now let’s turn to the practical challenges of getting started on that journey — which, as we promise in the headline above, are not as hard as you think.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recognizes that a lack of group cooperation hampers an effective compliance program and calls this phenomenon “silos.” The DOJ recognizes the detrimental effect of silos on an effective compliance program. This paper explores how the compliance group can help its organization work as a team to better enable an effective compliance program.

Corporate compliance officers know that data analytics is crucial to the success of your compliance program. What’s more, compliance officers have already known about the importance of data analytics for more than a few years now. So why is building that strong data analytics capability still so elusive?

Regulations are getting more complex. Cybercrime is up. There is elevated scrutiny of organizations’ actions in the environmental and social arenas. News travels at the speed of the internet. Are you ready if a regulator shows up at your door?

It is essential to evaluate any compliance and ethics program, and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) expects it. How do you use benchmarking to your advantage as well?

It’s an age-old compliance question: What is an acceptable completion rate for training? From what we hear in the field: 90% is good, and 95% is leading practice; you’ll want 100% for new hires, and we think managers should be closer to 100%, too.

After the #MeToo Movement, compliance professionals were left wondering... “What now?” Read Rethink's latest blog to hear what Kirsten Liston learned from creating "Don't Stand By", a compliance video... that reached over 47,000 people.

We all know some employees unfortunately dread compliance training. But wouldn’t it be wonderful if employees felt as inspired and motivated by compliance training as we all do? This year, I challenge you to do your part to change perspectives on compliance.