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How winning organizations use KRI dashboards to lead risk.
In an age where one wrong decision can erode years of progress, Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) have become a powerful governance tool. Yet,...
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What boards really want from Auditors
Boards do not hate auditors, but what they truly hate are surprises disguised as reports, issues that surface long after decisions have...
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A growing cyber threat landscape of East Africa
As East Africa rapidly embraces digital transformation, the region is increasingly becoming a target for sophisticated cybercriminal...
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Become the Fraud fighter every organization needs
Course description: The Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) Training Program equips participants with the essential skills to detect, deter, and...
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Why do some board members avoid tough questions?
Recently, I had a rare opportunity to engage with Church leaders from across the country at Uganda Martyrs University (UMU) during an...
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Ready to fix your culture? Start at the top.
If your teams are disengaged, your meetings are performative, and your best people are quietly quitting, you don’t have a performance...
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Is your Internal Audit Report dead or Live?
I served as Secretary to the Council at the Institute of Corporate Governance of Uganda and had the privilege of working there. I served as...
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Stop promoting timekeepers, Promote value creators
In 2018, I sat in a boardroom in Nairobi, staring across the table at a defeated CEO. He had just returned from a disastrous regional...
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Is your Company Board a great one?
A great board is like an expert football coach. They do not rush onto the pitch and don’t take the penalty kicks. But they watch the game...
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Three questions that could save the internal audit from extinction
What are we auditing that no longer moves the dial? And what are we ignoring that will sink us in 18 months? Most audit plans are...
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The memo that never reached the team, a case of toxic leadership
In one of Uganda’s fastest-growing financial institutions, let’s call it ABC Financial, a middle manager named Sharon stumbled on a buried...
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What is your boardroom culture?
Forget policies. Forget charters. The real governance of any organization is shaped by one invisible force: boardroom culture. Boardroom...
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The mirror effect: when the chair blinks, the board blurs
A few years ago, I worked with a company whose board was known for its passive oversight. The chair, an affable industry elder, avoided...
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Why a lion hunts in a pride and your team cannot deliver
Years ago, a regional telecom firm hired a consultant to fix a failing product launch, marked by missed deadlines and blame games. Morale...
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How to build a risk-aware culture in your organization
The popular saying goes: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” And when it comes to risk, culture doesn’t just eat your strategy; it leaks...
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How most strategy tracking is a beautiful lie
I once worked with a financial institution that proudly claimed 92% of its strategic initiatives were “on track.” The CFO & CEO beamed. The...
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What will kill your business first, a hacker or your own ignorance?
A manufacturing CEO once told me, “We are too small for cybercriminals to notice.” He had forgotten that cybercrime is always a matter of...
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What is your boardroom culture?
Forget policies. Forget charters. The real governance of any organisation is shaped by one invisible force: boardroom culture. Boardroom...
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Be the great leader who embeds fraud risk into strategy
In leading organizations, fraud prevention is not a defensive move. It is a strategic advantage. It protects trust, reputation, and...
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How to fix a micro-managing board: Use the board mandate clarity tool
In many boardrooms, I have had the chance to step in; one silent killer stalks board effectiveness: mandate drift. Boards begin with...
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How culture eats everything in an organization without noticing it
A crocodile does not announce its bite. That is how culture eats strategy, execution, innovation, and even common sense, without you...
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The risk you ignore is the one that will hurt your organization
You do not need to be an entomologist to know that a termite never bites loudly. It chews quietly until the pillar collapses. That is how...
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George W. Kanyeihamba, 85, Uganda’s dissenting conscience on the bench, dies
"Justice may bend, but it must never kneel." That can be said of the late Justice (Rtd.) Prof. George W. Kanyeihamba’s credo. KAMPALA,...
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What CEOs want the board to know, but are afraid to say
Over the years, I have worked with dozens of CEOs, some newly appointed, others seasoned veterans. They lead complex organizations through...
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