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{{a|people|}}Men and women who understand the deadline for everything, but the point of nothing, these are the blessèd folk whose lot in life is to assess your [[compliance]] with measurable criteria because — not being [[subject matter expert]]s — they have no means of assessing anything else.  
{{a|people|[[File:Rubber glove.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Medical examination by checklist, yesterday.]]}}Men and women who understand the deadline for everything, but the point of nothing, these are the blessèd folk whose lot in life is to assess your [[compliance]] with measurable criteria because — not being [[subject matter expert]]s — they have no means of assessing anything else.  


Your department’s commitment — probably given, in a typical moment of weakness or inattention, by the [[GC]] who was [[GC]] three [[GC]]s ago — to review annually the firm’s fleet of template [[confidentiality agreement]]s is a fertile hunting ground for the kind of [[operational error]] incidents which are [[IA]]’s meat and drink.  
Your department’s commitment — probably given, in a typical moment of weakness or inattention, by the [[GC]] who was [[GC]] three [[GC]]s ago — to review annually the firm’s fleet of template [[confidentiality agreement]]s is a fertile hunting ground for the kind of [[operational error]] incidents which are [[IA]]’s meat and drink.  
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Internal auditors have recently hit upon the need to internally audit themselves. To the extent there is not something auto-erotic about this, there is something potentially dystopian about it. May this be the point, greatly anticipated, at which the fallow corporation — famously, a person in legal fiction, able to sue and be sued but not one in a social sense, able to share a pint down that the local — becomes self-aware?
Internal auditors have recently hit upon the need to internally audit themselves. To the extent there is not something auto-erotic about this, there is something potentially dystopian about it. May this be the point, greatly anticipated, at which the fallow corporation — famously, a person in legal fiction, able to sue and be sued but not one in a social sense, able to share a pint down that the local — becomes self-aware?


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*[[Substance and form]]
*[[Substance and form]]
*[[Computer-based training]]
*[[Computer-based training]]