One of the most frequently asked questions I hear about managing corruption risk demonstrates the compliance profession’s passion for benchmarking: “What do companies with the best anti-corruption programs do differently?”
The answer I give does not offer details about process or technology, at least not directly; instead, it boils down to philosophy and vision. Compliance, risk, internal audit, and other executives leading the most effective (and, not coincidentally, the most efficient) anti-corruption programs think of their efforts as an integral part of their organization’s offensive capability—efforts that enable business agility and business resiliency to flourish.
