admin The age of AI has arrived into the mainstream. Many of us would have read, heard and encountered news of how artificial intelligence and in the area of knowledge workers, language learning models or LLMs will one day eliminate more and more human jobs. There is both a significant amount of fear, uncertainty and doubt … Read more
In my close to three decades of corporate career, I have worked with many different people across all levels of the organization. From the most junior staff to C-suite and even Board Members who were in very distinguished careers in their respective fields. One of the things I have observed is that meritocracy only goes … Read more
Many of us who are or were in the profession of internal audit typically supported the work of the Audit Committee (AC) in our respective roles whether as a member of the IA team or the Head or Director of Internal Audit. This including working with, for and under an Audit Committee Chairperson as well … Read more
One of the regular exercises I carried out as a former Agency Chief Information Security Officer in an statutory board was to conduct regular phishing exercises. For the uninitiated, phishing is defined by Meta.AI as: “… a type of cybercrime in which attackers send fraudulent communications, such as emails, texts, or messages, that appear to … Read more
As a former Head of Internal Audit with decades of experience doing, managing and leading internal audits, I have come across my fair share of idiots and idiocy in my career. At times, auditees sees internal auditors as idiots. Similarly, there were times when as the Internal Audit Head I also saw auditees doing idiotic … Read more
[Disclaimer: This Post is based on a real incident I encountered but the writing was assisted with generative AI (ChatGPT) but edited by myself because the phrasing used by ChatGPT were not typically how I would phrase some of the experiences.] It started with two emails from students, and little did I know, it would … Read more
There has been and continues to be a lot of hype and excitement about generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in helping knowledge workers amplify our effectiveness. At the same time, people are concerned about the how some of the tasks and activities done in the workplace can be replaced, to some extent, by AI. After hearing … Read more
Before became self-employed, my last role was that of being an Agency Chief Information Security Officer or ACISO. The job title itself sounds grand and impressive, but the work was mostly cleaning up after the fairly basic mistakes by staff and vendors of simple IT security and cybersecurity breaches. It also involved answering to a … Read more
Glad to have shared at ISCA’s Financial Forensic Accounting (FFA) Virtual Lunch Talk: Behind Closed Doors: Exposing Anti-Competitive Practices from Bid Rigging on 5 December 2024 from 12.30 p.m. to 1.30 p.m. via Zoom to 177 participants from Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and even Australia. Kudos to the great folks at Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA) … Read more
One of the lessons I learnt from my two years (plus) secondment to the National Institute of Early Childhood Development (NIEC) from 1998 to 2000 when I was building up my team as the Head of Finance & Administration from three staff to ten staff was to hold many one-to-one conversations with each of the … Read more