After responding to the first round of compliance requirements, businesses are now faced with a new set of internal challenges. They have come to realize that their control objectives are not always in line with business objectives. In fact, a number of businesses are experiencing additional compliance costs as a result of disconnects within their own organization.
Corporate compliance, now more than ever, demands an enterprise approach. A new level of collaboration between IT and business lines is required.
After responding to the first round of compliance requirements, businesses are now faced with a new set of internal challenges. They have come to realize that their control objectives are not always in line with business objectives. In fact, a number of businesses are experiencing additional compliance costs as a result of disconnects within their own organization.
Corporate compliance, now more than ever, demands an enterprise approach. A new level of collaboration between IT and business lines is required. To learn more about how to get smart about enterprise wide compliance, join Pegasystems on January 18th for this roundtable with industry experts and practitioners.
Jo Hoppe, an industry CIO, and Joe Gelinas, a leading expert in compliance business issues will discuss:
• Closing the gap between corporate and process level controls
• Seamlessly integrating compliance into day to day business process activities
• Working smart by leveraging business rules to add intelligence to compliance collaboration
• Responding with agility to new and changing business policies and external regulatory mandates
Featured Speakers:
Jo Hoppe joined Pegasystems in 2003 where she serves as CIO. In this capacity, Jo is responsible for designing and building a comprehensive portfolio of enterprise solutions that capitalize on the intrinsic business advantages of Pegasystems’ rules-based BPM technology.
Prior to joining Pegasystems, she held the dual role of EVP/CIO of CMGI and CTO of uBID. Prior to CMGI, Jo was the CIO at Addison Wesley Longman and at Houghton Mifflin Co.
She is on the board of Society for Information Management and has been featured in CIO Magazine, Upside Magazine, Mass High Tech, Boston Women’s Journal, ComputerWorld, Publishers’ Weekly and the Seybold Report.
Ulric J. (Joe) Gelinas, Jr., is Professor of Accountancy at Bentley College. He received his M.B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Massachusetts. He is co-author of Accounting Information Systems, 6th ed., and Business Processes and Information Technology. He is a recipient of the Innovation in Auditing and Assurance Education Award from the American Accounting Association. Dr. Gelinas has published in International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research, Issues in Accounting Education, IS Audit & Control Journal, Technical Communications Quarterly, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Journal of Information Systems Education, Annals of Cases on Information Technology and other outlets.
