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2008
The IQ Business Group - corporate report
10 October 2008The IQ Business Group is a rare company – it’s an organisation where making a difference is as important as making a profit and where the growth of employees and clients is on equal footing with the growth of the organisation.
Now 10 years old, IQ withstood the turbulence of the dot-com era, which led to the demise of many of its peers. It re-engineered itself and emerged a robust organisation with a proud track record of assisting businesses to do business better.
Operational Risk Management moving to mainstream
2 September 2008Operational risk management (Op Risk), long regarded as nothing more than the ‘operating risk’ associated with equipment breakdown, is finally taking rightful place as a critical component of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) alongside strategic and financial risk management.
“And with good reason,” says Bevan Smith, manager, Operational Risk at The IQ Business Group. “Some spectacular operational failures of large companies and institutions* over the past 10 years - largely resulting from a lack of control of operations involving people, policies and procedures - has positioned Op Risk firmly in the spotlight.”
High cost of open source freedom
23 August 2008The worsening IT skills shortage in South Africa should be given serious consideration by organisations planning to take advantage of the perceived cost benefits of open source software.
That’s the view of Karl-Heinz Wessinger, from The IQ Business Group’s Software Engineering division who points out that the perception that open source software is “free” is not always correct. Open source is “free” only in so far as it is exempt from the conventional licensing charges attached to platform software.
Cost-saving software quality assurance more than software testing
5 August 2008The cost to businesses of dealing with governance, risk and compliance requirements is considerably higher than it should be, largely as a result of a duplication of control activities.
So says Sean de la Rosa, Senior Manager ERM at The IQ Business Group who explains that the risk management, compliance and governance reforms that followed the spectacular corporate failures of the past decade have placed today’s organisations under increased risk and regulatory pressures.
Cost-saving software quality assurance more than software testing
28 July 2008The earlier comprehensive Software Quality Assurance (SQA) processes are applied in the Software Development Life Cycle, the more project costs are reduced and the less chance there is of a high defect count, business process misalignment and lost productivity wiping out a good portion of whatever business benefits the project should and could have delivered.