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Free Library: Governance and Oversight, Committees, Compliance

case studies, videos, audios, and essays challenging conventional wisdom and suggesting an empowered approach

How Organizations Should Work

Executive summary: Demand management
best practices in resource governance (priority setting, demand management, project intake), and the benefits of getting it right

Use case: Governance
you have two alternatives: human oversight, or systemic checks and balances

Use case: the proper roles of committees
a straightforward policy can avoid burying yourself under committee bureaucracy

Use Case: The Proper Roles of Committees

Role analysis: Committees versus project teams
never form a committee to deliver a project

Role Analysis: Committees versus Project Teams

Provocative essay: SOx and micro-management
how regulations are used as an excuse for costly disempowerment

Provocative Essay: SOx and Micro-Management

Role analysis: Chief Compliance Officer, Chief Information Security Officer
some simple guidelines make the difference between a Chief Compliance Officer and a Chief Scapegoat

Role analysis: Policy czar
good governance or oppressive government?

Reference: Ed Lindblom - Market Economics Is the Most Powerful Mechanism of Social Coordination Known to Mankind
rare 1990 private lecture explains why market economics is the best basis for the design of organizational structure, teamwork processes, and resource-governance processes (44-min audio)

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