Opportunities for R&C cost savings and improved performance are often hiding in plain sight. They’re hiding in the silos of various programs — each developed over time in response to different regulatory pressures, each with its own priorities, incentives, systems and processes, often operating without coordination across the lines of defense. In the example above, the company ultimately realized 50% cost savings in its SOX compliance costs and 35% in its quality assurance spend.
What did this company do differently? It seized the opportunity for transformation with a horizontal view of program inefficiencies across silos. In our experience, even leading-edge risk and compliance programs today can still find ways to cut costs by roughly 20% while also improving the quality needed to manage increasing regulatory complexity.
