IT News has this article on compliance, Top Down Compliance .
The problem with compliance is that you not only need to be compliant, but you also need to prove that you are.

You need to manage risk, and also prove that you are doing so.
You need auditability and visibility, and have to fight business blindness
You need […]

The DailyWTF is a sexy site, and when I saw this post on The Fudge Factories, I was thinking about how true this must be in so many organizations.
Many businesses are so blind, and many business managers have no clue how the computer systems that is thrust upon them really works and takes regular operational […]

Now, check this post Talking S-O-A, by the Business-Driven Architect, .
Here are some of the interesting expansions on SOA from the post.

Strategic Outcome Attainment
Seizing Operational Agility
Situational Optimization Alternatives
Speed Offering Advantage

Now, that seems familiar! The above are also a Business Rules Management System Advantage. Read on.
Strategic Outcome Attainment
You need collaboration between […]

Now, check this headline in Banknet360
BANKNET 360 TV: Does SOX Stifle Small Businesses? 
The chairman and CEO of the American Stock Exchange thinks so.
I had written on this same subject some time back in this post ,
How do you Ease the SOX Pain for small Enterprises?
Business Rules Management Systems enable an organization to effectively enforce […]

Now, check out this post, SOX & the Law of Unintended Consequences .
Here is an excerpt that caught my eye.
But woe to the start-ups, and woe to the small business innovators. Their processes are necessarily in flux. They need to prototype them, test them, modify them, expand them—in short, they need to do […]