Our Educational Offerings

Courses Available Now:

• Driving GRC Convergence and Oversight; The Implications for Internal Audit and Other GRC Roles and Functions (a part of our new "Controlled Courseware Initiative" which is described below)
• Mapping The Enterprise with the Functional Modeling Technique
• Building Enterprise Processes with the Role-Based Process Flow Technique
• Building a web-based Professionals' Networked Collaborative Platform for your GRC Community

Let us know if you have any professionally designed and developed courses that you would like us to help you deliver or sell. We can provide ideas for courseware content improvement if you are not an instructional design professional. We can also help you to determine if our global audience might be interested in purchasing the courseware curricula content under the following program.

The Controlled Courseware Initiative

We are now rolling out our new global educational program for professional educators that serve GRC communities with curricula, courses, seminars, and workshops around the world. It is entitled, "The Controlled Courseware Initiative". This program allows individuals and communities to share curricula structures, courseware content, and knowledge elements that make up an educational program offering. We distribute our own courseware content in a PowerPoint format under the Creative Commons Share-Alike licensing agreement. We also solicit 3rd party courses for this program. Although not all courses are appropriate for this program, we find that many are. This is especially true of educational program offerings that might be used across different cultures and languages such as internal audit courses. In this way we can establish an educational Community-of-Practice where we can share curricula ideas, course modules, core educational knowledge, etc. and vice versa.

Now your organization can purchase and / or disseminate educational and training program offerings that leverage a unique GRC knowledge management practice that we have championed for over 10 years. In essence, we embed "atomic knowledge elements" in a course that can be used by, and extended by, others over time. The educator that purchases a controlled course can choose to add core knowledge to the base courseware content, have the course participants add additional core knowledge (in a knowledge management crowd-sourcing fashion) or a combination of both. In this way a course takes on a life of it's own as people work together to add knowledge to the original courseware baseline. The purchaser can also add, delete, and modify any other content as they see fit. They can provide their own enhancements back to the community if they want to. They can brand the course as their own, but are required to make known that the original courseware content was provided by us or some other 3rd party that we represent.

The Controlled Courseware Initiative is made possible because a portion of the courseware course is applied to a "Courseware Change Management" service. This entitles the cutomer to join a community of educators that have the ability to pool their courseware content enhancements for the benefit of all. Our staff provides a centralized change management authority to manage courseware enhancements and additions. We provide the change suggestions and enhancements back to the community as inputs to their own courseware development needs. We also can incorporate a portion of the changes to new versions of the content as we, or you, want. The program term is one calendar year, and can be extended by you if you'd like to continue to receive, share, and / or make courseware enhancements after year one has expired.

Let's look at a specific example to see how we envision this program functioning. Our current seminar, "GRC Convergence and Oversight" has been through an alpha and beta test. We know, based on seminar participant feedback, that the content is interesting and solid. Yet, the course could be expanded into modules that address more collaborative course exercises than we presently address. Instead of holding up the courseware development process, we have chosen to distribute the seminar and share the content while enhancing it. Let us know if this seminar is of interest or if you have courseware content that you might want to sell under the Creative Commons Share-Alike licensing agreement.