Month: March 2023

5 Simple Rules for PSD2 Strong Customer Authentication Success

What is Strong Customer Authentication in PSD2? PSD2 has introduced major changes for European Payment Service Providers. The most eye-catching change—the introduction of access to payment accounts for third parties (known as “open banking”)—comes into force with the Regulatory Technical…

Tackling The Data Challenge For Regulatory Compliance in Banking

We’ll cut to the chase—staying above the rising tide of banking compliance requires data: Securing it, integrating it, sharing a new level of detail with regulators, and developing with it to build banking, trading and customer processes that meet regulatory…

Unidirectional Security for Power Generation: Advanced Solutions

The pervasive threat environment continues to worsen. Attack tools continue to become more powerful, and today’s targeted ransomware attacks use tools and techniques that were exclusive to nation-states five years ago. Power generation OT/control system networks are intrinsically vulnerable for…

A New Generation is Making Waves in the Workplace – And They Are Redefining the Game Plan

As the workplace reflects a new demographic, the nature of Shared Services work changes, and technology offers a boost – successful organisations are rethinking talent management and training to equip teams for the digital age (and the millennial invasion). SSON…

To Change a Company’s Culture, You Need to Capture Your Employees’ Heads and Hearts

It has been said that measuring culture is like shaping smoke or herding cats. But that is before something called Return on Culture came alive. Douglas Conant, who led the remarkable turnaround of the Campbell’s Soup Company by increasing cumuative…

Innovation in Changing Corporate Cultures

Of the key attributes successful companies and their employees practice in achieving maximum, sustainable performance, none is more critical to profitable growth than focusing on and enabling a need that begins with our first breath: The need to thrive. Thriving…

5 Ways Your Company Communications Strategy Drives Results For HR

The human resources department needs to embrace strong communication practices in order to thrive and grow within their organization, yet many companies don’t have a robust plan in place. When HR teams lack a comprehensive communications strategy, employees are left…

You Want a Unique Culture; You Need a Custom Approach

You cannot so much as tweak any part of a culture without considering the downstream, upstream and midstream consequences. There is the potential for fragile cultures to collapse, strong cultures to weaken and entrenched cultures to circle the wagons. Inertia…

A Proven Methodology for Organizational Change

Understanding cultural change demands a committed appreciation of, and respect for, cultures as living organisms. Knowing how they form, knowing why and in which direction they have grown and, most importantly, what drives them to change is critical to shaping…

A Guide to the Future of Online Learning – What Organizations Need to Know About Engaging and Educating the Modern Learner

Predating written language, on-the-job training was widely used. In the Middle Ages, there was a movement to apprenticeships when tools became more complex and the need for craftsmen arose.

Why Your Nonexistent Talent Management Strategy is Costing You Money

Your company is growing. You’re hiring dozens of new employees, or maybe launching a new, innovative product guaranteed to build your customer base. Whatever it is, it’s big, and it’s going to help you stand out from the competition and…

How to Conquer Your First Talent Management Purchase

Investing in talent management software leads to bottom line results, but only if you’ve identified your company’s needs and goals, and know what questions to ask vendors. Instead of taking a “shop ‘till you drop” approach (where you risk looking…