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What Are Corporate Records? Easy Tips for Management, Compliance & More
Corporate records are fundamental when it comes to governance and compliance, especially for succesful organisations. Usually, the company...
The Ethics of AI: How to Avoid Irrelevance Through Better Governance
An organisation is only as prepared as its governance professionals, meaning that it's time to get clued up on the ethics of AI. With this...
AI Governance Challenges: How To Deal With the Risks of Technology
According to DIligent's GC Risk Index, organisations are feeling more confident tackling the AI governance challenges of today. In fact, when...
The Best Corporate Governance Trends for 2025 & Beyond
Explore the top corporate governance trends shaping 2025, from ESG and AI to board diversity, cybersecurity, and stakeholder accountability.
GRC 20/20 Report: How Diligent One is Connecting GRC
GRC 20/20 report: Governance, risk and compliance (GRC) are more complex than ever. Siloed manual processes increase risk exposure, create...
How to Transform Public Sector Board Development
Public sector board development is essential for effective governance and engagement If your aim is to enhance your public board or committee’s...
How Effective Is Your Entity Management Strategy? Find Out Now
If you've got the basics of entity management from part 1 of this blog series down, then it's time to take a deeper dive into your entity management...
What Is Entity Management? Discover Its Powerful Advantages
Entity management is a complex task that involves various people and processes. In fact, about 55% of organisations worldwide don’t have proper...
Board Pack Management: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Experts
The average board pack is hundreds of pages long and packed with critical information, making board pack management a crucial aspect of...
Finding the Best Board Management Software: The Ultimate Buyer’s Guide
In today’s diverse and often overwhelming landscape, finding the best board management software for your organisation can be quite a task. With so...
AI for Decision Making: 9 Easy Ways to Boost Efficiency
After grappling with artificial intelligence from a governance perspective, have you considered using this transformative technology in your daily...
GRC Resilience: Is Your Board Ready to Tackle Today’s Risks?
The risk landscape for businesses is evolving rapidly and GRC resilience is more important than ever. With new threats like cybercrime, AI...
Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercises: How To Enhance Oversight in 5 Easy Steps
How exactly can cybersecurity tabletop exercises help the board? Well, try to answer these questions: If a cyberattack took your operations offline,...
The Amazing Impact Of Diligent Board Software
Cost savings and business benefits enabled by the top board software: Diligent Board and Leadership Collaboration. The ability to access, share, and...
The ROI of Diligent’s Board and Leadership Collaboration: Security Vs Convenience
The Total Economic Impact of Diligent’s board and leadership collaboration solution. Diligent commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total...
The Essentials of Good Governance: Building A Strong Foundation
Ten out of 10 executive leaders agree: Good governance is a cornerstone of high-performing boards and organisations. But what does such oversight...
Unlock the Strategy of the Entity Management Maturity Curve
Entity management is often seen as a burdensome, time-consuming endeavour fraught with inefficiencies and risks. But what if you could make entity...
The Ultimate Buyer’s Guide to Entity Management Software
Use this entity management software guide to find a solution that fits your organisation's needs. As purchases of B2B solutions have increased in...
Finding the Top Board Management Software: An Exclusive G2 Report
G2 has recently released the latest categorisation of the industry’s top board management software based on market presence and customer...
The Corporate Secretary Checklist: How to Achieve Effective Governance
Corporate secretaries get the best and worst of all worlds, acting as a crucial link between the board, management, and shareholders. This means...
Entity Management Technology: The Best Operational Advantage
When it comes to entity management technology, it's all about how entity management is seen in an organisation. Pop quiz: Is entity management… A. a...
Board Document Best Practices: The Ultimate Guide
Board packs are the most crucial resource for guiding board meetings, so it's natural to want to know the board document best practices. They can be...
10 Must-Use Types of Board Documents: Governance Made Simple
Board documents drive the critical decisions board members will make. Too much information risks overloading board members’ precious time and...
How to Integrate AI with Confidence: A Helpful Guide
Be your organisation's AI superhero. Learn how to integrate AI, choose secure technology and ramp up efficiency and innovation with our nine-page...
How to Write A Perfect Meeting Minutes Email (+ A Free Template)
Taking meeting minutes is one of the most important things a corporate secretary or committee member does. But what about after the meeting? The...
How Boards Can Overcome Cybersecurity Regulation Hurdles
Complying with the slew of new regulations that are coming means companies must act fast to up their game to overcome cybersecurity regulation...
11 Corporate Governance Best Practices To Implement Now
Every corporation, whether new or well-established, should follow corporate governance best practices. Best corporate governance practices apply to...
The Hidden Costs Of Free Board Management Software
What is the secret sauce behind any effective board? Modern board management software. With board portal technology, private and public...
Unleashing GenAI’s Full Potential: A Balancing Act for Boards
Barely a few hours can go by these days without encountering Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in some form. Yes, this groundbreaking...
The Essential Board Reporting Best Practices for Influential Leaders
Today’s governance, risk and compliance (GRC) is a far cry from the GRC of previous years and decades, so it's difficult to keep up with...
The Ultimate Collection of Meeting Minutes Tips: 15 Do’s & Don’ts
When learning how to take meeting minutes, corporate secretaries and other minute-takers focus heavily on what the meetings should include. However,...
How to Use AI for GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance)
Governance, risk and compliance (GRC) has reached a tipping point, and many organisations are looking into AI for GRC. Workloads can no longer keep...
The Important Risks of Board-Level Conflicts
Tom Fox, the founder of the Compliance Podcast Network, interviews Renee Murphy to discuss the board’s role in implementing ESG practices and...
The Diligent Effect: Proven Savings in a Single Platform
Discover the benefits of a consolidated platform. Sharpen decision-making at the highest level with Diligent One Platform.
Boardroom Technology: The Go-To Guide for Board Portal Software
Choosing the right board portal for your nonprofit can be a daunting task – This guide can help your board make the best decision possible.
Leading with Purpose and Reconnecting With Your “Why”: A Helpful Guide
“Leading with purpose” is a phrase with powerful connotations. As a leader, when you step back and get a bigger picture — that is, when you have a...
33 Board Software Security Considerations Before Buying
For a mission-driven organisation, investing in board software security that will help your board be even more effective is a key decision. Every...
How to Unlock Success with Nonprofit Data Management
Nonprofit data management is a critical facet for organisations striving to maximise their impact. Consider the difference one nonprofit can make by...
How Nonprofits Can Use Technology to Reach Data Maturity
Data maturity, a state where organisational leaders use data to drive decision-making, is no longer a goal exclusive to the corporate world. In the...
Government Cybersecurity Unveiled: How to Stay Secure Against Cyber Threats
As a government member and decision-maker for your community, you likely handle sensitive information related to your constituents, community, and...
Board Management Solutions: How Secure is Secure?
Cybersecurity presents real risks to a mission-driven organisation's ability to carry out its mission and serve its clients. Your board management...
Unlock the Secret Power of Business Ethics: A Guide
The importance of business ethics refers to the principles and values that guide the behaviour of individuals and organisations in the business...
Technology Best Practices for Governance Professionals
How Does Your Organisation Stack Up? Technology best practices helps board keep pace with the evolving role to support of modern-day governance...
Virtual Board Engagement: The 7 Rules for Better Board Meetings
What does true virtual board engagement look like, and how do boards know when they achieve it? Board engagement is part art and part science, and...
The Best BoardEffect Features of 2023
BoardEffect features 2023. The BoardEffect team is dedicated to making the board meeting preparation process as easy and stress-free as possible for...
Board Effectiveness Checklist: How to Increase Success
Nonprofit boards must adapt swiftly to evolving demands, adding excess pressure, and likely leaving you wondering how to increase your board...
How to Maximise Non-profit Board Engagement
Do you need to maximise your non-profit board engagement? Does your government department need help keeping board members engaged and focused on...
Effective Cybersecurity Strategy For Board Engagement: Your First Step
When it comes to an effective cybersecurity strategy for board engagement, identifying risk is only half the battle. The next crucial step for a...
13 Unexpected Costs Of Cutting Your Executive Management Software
Organisations across sectors and regions feel the tightening grip of economic uncertainties: The vast majority (75%) of global CEOs expect declining...