Ethisphere and Lextegrity Launch Diagnostic to Enable Organizations to Assess Maturity of Digital Compliance Processes

Online diagnostic allows organizations to benchmark against leading practices and develop a roadmap for key areas of digital transformation: automation, monitoring and data analytics

Phoenix, AZ — January 25, 2022  – Ethisphere and compliance risk automation and analytics software specialist Lextegrity have launched a  Compliance Digital Transformation Maturity Diagnostic designed to help organizations measure the maturity of their digital compliance processes and define a roadmap towards transformation.

The launch of the diagnostic follows a series of announcements from regulators and prosecutors which have signaled a growing expectation for companies to anticipate and address misconduct more quickly and more effectively. Technology can play a key role in streamlining and enhancing processes to support this goal, but for many companies it is difficult to define a digital transformation journey. The diagnostic bridges that gap by enabling organizations to measure their current state and guide them towards an improvement roadmap.

To start the Compliance Digital Transformation Maturity Diagnostic process, sign up by clicking on the following link and a member from the Ethisphere team will reach out with unique log-in credentials and instructions: https://ethisphere.com/what-we-do/compliance-digital-transformation-maturity-diagnostic/

The diagnostic focuses on four specific compliance process areas where risks routinely arise: third-party due diligence; gifts, travel and hospitality expenditures; conflicts of interest; and sponsorships, donations and political contributions expenditures. Following an initial online assessment of these areas, the diagnostic delivers benchmarking of results based on a proprietary compliance digital transformation maturity scale. Participants are provided with a fully customized digital transformation roadmap created for the organization during a virtual workshop.

The diagnostic is now available as an added benefit to Ethisphere’s 370 Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) community members.

The launch of the diagnostic comes as Lextegrity and Ethisphere continue their strategic partnership, primarily aimed at defining and developing leading practices, resources, and analytics to support the wider use of automation and data analytics in ethics and compliance. Over the past year this has resulted in a well-received data analytics masterclass series and educational webinars about the utilization of data within compliance programs, and a whitepaper specifying how automation and analytics can help organizations overcome the challenges of mitigating third-party risk.

“Regulators are turning up the heat on companies to use the data at their disposal to identify and prevent wrongdoing and make better-informed decisions. We’re delighted to extend our partnership with Ethisphere to enable ethics and compliance leaders to leverage the power of data within their own programs,” said Parth Chanda, Chief Executive Officer of Lextegrity.

“Automation and data analytics are on the agendas of all ethics and compliance leaders. Lextegrity has been an excellent partner in providing our BELA members and others with valuable insights about how to use automation and data analytics to streamline and improve programs,” said Erica Salmon Byrne, President, Ethisphere.

Companies interested in getting involved with these activities or the Ethisphere and Lextegrity partnership can learn more by visiting https://ethisphere.com/what-we-do/lextegrity/

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About Ethisphere
Ethisphere is the global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices that fuel corporate character, marketplace trust and business success. Ethisphere has deep expertise in measuring and defining core ethics standards using data-driven insights that help companies enhance corporate character. Ethisphere honors superior achievement through its World’s Most Ethical Companies® recognition program provides a community of industry experts with the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) and showcases trends and best practices in ethics with Ethisphere Magazine. Ethisphere also helps to advance business performance through data-driven assessments, benchmarking, and guidance. More information about Ethisphere can be found at https://ethisphere.com

About the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA)
Founded by Ethisphere, the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) is a globally recognized organization of more than 370 leading companies, collaborating together to share best practices in governance, risk management, compliance and ethics. BELA’s membership has since grown to a large community of companies in pivotal markets including South Asia, Latin America and Europe who recognize the inherent value of promoting ethical leadership and world-class compliance culture. Learn more about BELA by visiting http://bela.ethisphere.com

About Lextegrity
Lextegrity is an industry leader in digital transformation of corporate risk management. Lextegrity provides software to monitor spend and automate third-party due diligence and compliance pre-approvals to prevent and detect fraud, corruption, sanctions violations and conflicts of interest. Lextegrity was founded and is led by veteran legal and audit professionals with experience before the DOJ, SEC and other international regulators, who launched Lextegrity to build the risk management tools they wished they had when they were in-house. Lextegrity’s spend monitoring and approval software has been cited by the SEC in an FCPA resolution and aligns closely with the recent DOJ updated guidance on effective compliance programs. More information about Lextegrity can be found at https://www.lextegrity.com

Ethisphere Acquires Ethics and Compliance Technology Provider informed360

Acquisition allows governance, ethics, and compliance leaders to combine Ethisphere’s program measurement, best practices, and expert guidance with the highly configurable workflow automation and data analytic tools of informed360.

Phoenix, AZ – January 11, 2022 Ethisphere®, a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices, announced today the acquisition of informed360, a leading technology and software company that enables governance, ethics, and compliance leaders to use a single platform to effectively manage programs, automate workflows, analyze data, and turn insights and guidance into actionable plans. informed360’s founders, Andrew Neblett and Brian Beeghly, will join Ethisphere.

“Business integrity is central to not only meeting stakeholder expectations, but also to strong economic performance. Regulators also expect organizations to effectively manage programs and use analytics to ensure effectiveness. Companies turn to Ethisphere to understand leading practices through our unparalleled data, community, and expertise. informed360’s technology offers a way to ensure this guidance is effectively implemented and managed. It’s a powerful combination,” said Tim Erblich, CEO of Ethisphere.

“For many years, Uber has turned to Ethisphere to understand best practices based on the data of leading program practices and insights from their community of senior leaders. informed360’s easy-to-use software has enabled us to analyze our own data and map out workflows and action plans to implement improvements,” said Scott Schools, Chief Compliance and Ethics Office at Uber. “Bringing these two companies together has the potential to provide even greater ways for ethics and compliance teams to align to and implement best-in-class programs.”

“We are delighted to be joining Ethisphere. As an early investor in Informed360, the team at Ethisphere understands the power of our solutions for ethics and compliance leaders seeking to better manage programs,” stated Andrew Neblett, CEO of Informed360. “informed360 will also benefit from Ethisphere’s expertise to make enhancements to our solutions and share them with a broader range of global companies.”

As a combined company, Ethisphere and informed360 will offer a full lifecycle approach to enable ethics and compliance teams to continually improve program maturity. Clients will be able to better understand best practices through Ethisphere’s program assessment expertise and unparalleled dataset that features the ethics and compliance program practices of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® and ethical culture survey results of more than 1.5 million employees. The informed360 technology offers a way to manage programs, analyze diverse data sources, and define workflows and action plans. It also enables effective implementation by providing access to best practice templates and real-time data. 

Learn more from informed360 – Ethisphere experts in an upcoming 1/25 webinar titled Turning Ethics and Compliance Insights into Action. Register at Ethisphere.com/events

About Ethisphere 

Ethisphere is the global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices that fuel corporate character, marketplace trust, and business success. Ethisphere has deep expertise in measuring and defining core ethics standards using data-driven insights that help companies enhance corporate character. Ethisphere honors superior achievement through its World’s Most Ethical Companies recognition program, provides a community of industry experts with the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA), and showcases trends and best practices in ethics with Ethisphere Magazine. Ethisphere also helps to advance business performance through data-driven assessments, benchmarking, and guidance. Learn more about Ethisphere by visiting https://ethisphere.com.

About informed360

informed360 was created by experienced compliance and technology professionals to address the increasing expectations and requirements of today’s ethics and compliance programs. The company delivers data-driven cloud-based technology solutions in a flexible and intuitive platform for simplifying ethics and compliance programs. The platform’s device-friendly design aligns core compliance program activities and third-party interfaces with the common elements of an effective program. The result is an advanced technology solution that provides organizations with greater program visibility, increased productivity, and measurable performance.

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