In the years I spent running one of IBM’s internal audit teams, I developed a methodology for testing organizations to see if they were likely to have problems. At every executive level, you have to be able to trust the people doing the job, but you also need to make sure there are controls so that this trust isn’t as necessary. When you put trustworthy people into jobs that reward untrustworthy behavior, they will either leave or become untrustworthy.
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Out-of-Control IT Departments
Posted by: Rob Enderle March 21, 2005 05:00 AMIn the years I spent running one of IBM’s internal audit teams, I developed a methodology for testing organizations to see if they were likely to have problems. At every executive level, you have to be able to trust the people doing the job, but you also need to make sure there are controls so that this trust isn’t as necessary. When you put trustworthy people into jobs that reward untrustworthy behavior, they will either leave or become untrustworthy.