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TheGRCBlueBook.com is a website dedicated to building a collaborative community of risk management and compliance professionals interested in sharing their experience using a variety of risk management tools and leading practice. TheGRCBlueBook is a free resource to use and has at its core a database of over 900 vendors, services, educational resources, and non-profit and standards organizations who support the practice of risk management and compliance. Risk management has become part of the lexicon of business and is practiced in all developed and emerging countries concerned with managing the increasingly complex regulatory government schemes and competitive pressures businesses face. The practice of risk management includes the work of internal and external auditors, compliance, risk managers, healthcare compliance officers, engineers, and a variety of newly formed roles across diverse industry types. As a result of the growth of the number of professionals who work in a role dedicated to managing risk or compliance related activities a host of standards based organizations have formed to provide certifications to formalize work that has no centralized standards organization. While these standards based organizations have contributed to developing formal competencies and improving expertise in risk management there has never been a forum dedicated to collecting and sharing empirical data that demonstrates the effectiveness of these practices. TheGRCBlueBook has been formed with the sole intent of providing an open forum for its members to share their experience for what is working, the tools that helped facilitate their successes and demonstrate the metrics used to measure improvements in risk management and compliance.

Like all good social experiments TheGRCBlueBook.com relies on the contributions both literally and professionally to achieve its goal. The global community of risk and compliance professionals has grown exponentially over the last 10 years or more but has splintered into specialties and sub-specialties that have traditionally not shared its proprietary risk practices. TheGRCBlueBook believes that creating a cross disciplinary practice to manager the diversity of risk, regulatory, and business challenges is imperative to improving risk practices. Atul Gawande demonstrated this in his book, "The Checklist Manifesto", where examples from airline pilots to Walmart are used to demonstrate how very simple tools can be used to reduce risk or change behavior to move people and organizations to new levels of high performance. This is the mission of TheGRCBlueBook.com.