Sensing Great Disturbances In The Force

Adam Balfour

by Adam Balfour

Obi-Wan Kenobi was able to detect “a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced” and could tell “something terrible has happened” even though he was physically far from where the event occurred (when the planet Alderaan was destroyed by the Death Star). Not only do we not have light sabers, but ethics and compliance officers have also not yet figured out a way to use the Force to detect risks and wrongdoing. Check out this week’s #SundayMorningComplianceTip for a Star Wars inspired tip about how data analytics can help and let me know what you think.
 
Obi-Wan Kenobi was able to detect “a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced” and could tell “something terrible has happened” even though he was physically far from where the event occurred (when the planet alderaan was destroyed by the Death Star).
 
Not only do we not have light sabers, but ethics and compliance officers have also not yet figured out a way to use the force to detect risks and wrongdoing. Instead, we need to rely on data and data analytics fand being smart about what data we choose to collect, how to combine with other data, what the data tells us and what to do with it), as well as monitoring and testing to look for potential issues, on site visits to different locations, and building trust so that employees feel safe raising concerns or wrongdoing.
 
So what can organizations do? They can develop data analytics programs (and there are some really cool platforms out there to support your program), have people who can run a data analytics program interpret the data (including knowing what data is irrelevant, able to identify possible trends or potential issues, and seeing and resolving issues upstream) and make it safe for people to speak up (and preferably find ways to reward them for doing so). All of these things can help detect possible disturbances in the organization.
 
Star Wars might be made up, but building a data driven program is very much a possible reality. When organizations see the benefit and make the right investments.
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