In listening to companies discuss compliance in the areas of anti-corruption under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), anti-money laundering (AML) or export control, one of the things that has consistently struck me is how siloed each of these groups invariably is within their company. Not only does this deny a company the ability to share a wide variety of talent and experiences, it can lead to the concept of what authors Robert Kaplan and Annette Mikes call the “functional trap” of labeling and compartmentalizing risk. In an article in the June issue of the Harvard Business Review, entitled “Managing Risks: A New Framework”, they declare that good risk discussions must be integrative in order for risk interaction to be evaluated. If not, a business “can be derailed by a combination of small events that reinforce one another in unanticipated ways.”
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