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February 11, 2011 Less than a 1 minute read

The most-viewed posts on Norman Marks IIA Blog

I recently posted a list of the top posts on my personal blog. Today, I want to share a list of the top posts, in terms of views, on my IIA blog.


1	What is “Risk-based” Auditing?	2304
2	Lessons for Internal Auditors From the Lehman Brothers Saga	2219
3	Let’s Talk About Governance	1748
4	Risk and Control Issues Commonly Overlooked by Internal Auditing 4: Linking Strategy to Execution	1529
5	Risk and Control Issues Commonly Overlooked by Internal Auditing 2: The adequacy of risk management	1454
6	Updating IIA Guidance on Continuous Auditing/Monitoring	1322
7	Building the Audit Plan Around Assurance on Governance, Risk Management, and Related Controls	1274
8	Is Internal Audit Meeting the Challenge? Perhaps Not!	1242
9	The Institute of Internal Auditors’ Tone at the Top Defines GRC and Gets It Right	1229
10	Food for Thought on Risk Appetite	1010
11	A Risk Assessment Tool for Auditors and Risk Officers	1004
12	How Do You Determine Whether the Risk Management Process Is “Effective”?	953
13	A Useful Framework for Assessing Your Risk Management Program	810
14	My Ideal Internal Audit Department	800
15	Risk and Control Issues Commonly Overlooked by Internal Auditing 3: People	731
16	A Challenging View of Internal Auditing	718
17	Risk Intelligence: Two Fine New Publications From Deloitte	709
18	A Strategic Plan for Internal Audit	689
19	King III: A Great Step for Corporate Governance?	665
20	Risk and Control Issues Commonly Overlooked by Internal Auditing 5: Management	650

Which posts did you find most and least interesting? Are there topics you would to see covered in 2011?

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Ethan Jewett

February 11, 2011 at 8:49 am

Hi Norman,

It looks like none of the links work.

I'm a little skeptical that lists of links like this add much value to SCN. Maybe a brief description of why each entry might be interesting to the SCN community would make it more clear why we should click through, and might even spark some discussion here.

Cheers,
Ethan

Former Member

February 12, 2011 at 9:38 pm

Norman,

Your other contentless SCN blogs are deep into the grey area and people have complained about them before, but this linkfarm is spam.

Sorry..
Julius

Former Member

February 14, 2011 at 10:04 am

Thank you for the feedback. I agree that this would have been better if I had explained more about why each of my 2010 posts might be of interest.

I also appreciate that some would prefer all my blogs to be posted here rather than on another site, with just a link and a few lines here. Going forward, I will post the complete post here so that people will not have to hyperlink over to the complete post.

I would at the same time like to express my appreciation for the many emails thanking me for my contributions. Comments like these encourage me to continue.

Former Member

February 24, 2011 at 3:50 am

I would like to remind those who find your blogs contentless, that the GRC area is indeed central, and this includes the way that IT audit is integrated into business audit in general. The new requirements on CFOs and top-management has an impact on IT practices, so SAP CC members beware, more might come unto you on the GRC side.

Norman, keep up the good work.

Former Member

February 24, 2011 at 3:55 am

Andre, thank you for the kind words.

If anybody would like me to change what I post, please let me know in a constructive fashion - with suggestions of what you would like to hear.

I do not write about SAP products at a technical level. My focus and perspective is as a long-time practitioner and I write about related business challenges and opportunities.

Ethan Jewett

February 24, 2011 at 4:39 am

Hi Norman,

I did provide a constructive suggestion about how this post could be structured in a way that added more value to the SCN community. I don't believe SCN should be limited to technical content, and I do appreciate your blogs that contain significant discussion of the topics you focus on. I don't have much to add, as it is not an area I know much about, but I read and learn.

On the other hand, some of your blog posts (and some of the posts of others as well, often SAP employees) have very little content and simply link off-site with little attempt to explain why the off-site content should be interesting to the SCN community and without trying to engage the SCN community in a discussion here on SCN. This post was such an obvious example of this tactic that I felt the need to speak up.

Cheers,
Ethan

Former Member

February 24, 2011 at 3:58 am

PS - the links do work if you would like to try them again.

You will perhaps have seen that instead of providing a link I am now posting the entire content here. That has a negative as well as the positive. The positive is that you don't have to click the hyperlink. The negative is that you will not be able to see the discussion that takes place on the other site.

Former Member

February 24, 2011 at 4:16 am

Hi Norman,

Thanks for answering.

I still don't "get it" what duplicating content is good for or linkfarming as only content to foreign (personal) sites. As an SAP employee I, also struggle to understand why you choose a personal blog for a company product suite and topic area.

Imagine what SCN would look like if everyone did that?

Anyway, perhaps I am also a part of the problem... but I just don't "get it".

Cheers,
Julius

Former Member

February 24, 2011 at 4:34 am

Julius,

I am not only trying to write for existing SAP customers, consultants, etc who are on SCN but for the business community as a whole.

You will see that my posts are not, with few exceptions, about SAP solutions per se. They are about business process challenges and opportunities.

I hope that helps.

The most-viewed posts on Norman Marks IIA Blog

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