Die Denk-Werkstatt
für Macher mit Tiefgang.

A series on information processing patterns, at the level of corporations and people. Based on scientific systems theory, not IT. Welcome.

Three core questions for Board Audit Committees in dialogue with their Internal Audit Head.

Internal Audit Teams typically include IT specialists, data scientists, and others. Yet finance graduates with an Accounting focus often dominate. Does this shape the lens on risks and findings?

And it might be working against you. Because its information-processing preferences are often one-sided, and unknown to management. Welcome to the world of The Organizational Personality (TOP).

Information is not the same as Information Processing. Sounds like IT? Not quite. The statement is grounded in scientific personality psychology. Preferred information processing patterns spill over into work outputs - all the way up to branding, strategy, and audit issues. And that's exactly where they can be identified and assessed from a risk perspective.