Decise :: Business Meets Tech: Recent Episodes
Keela Davis & Kyle Pott
Kyle and Keela from Decise provide unique insights on challenges facing businesses and present fresh perspectives on how to tackle these issues. We talk about strategy, compliance, automation, data, transformation, M&A, and innovation coming from experience working with small companies to the largest multinationals.
How you can independently audit an NFT to understand the market value. Volume, velocity, floor prices, off-chain perks, principal markets, and more.
There is still so much needed innovation in the deployment of compliance controls and improving the customer experience for the masses to adopt crypto payments.
"I just don't think 'normal' people would go through all that."
We laughed so much as we replayed Kyle's experience trying to buy his first NFT.
Shout out to Sophie Sturdevant for her amazing work.
Keela and Kyle talk through the lessons learned while Keela codes a blockchain from scratch. You might ask why she's doing this. It's not to create our own currency (however, she can hook you up with some keelacoin), it's to have a full appreciation of the tech inside and out and hopefully come up with some innovative ideas around smart contracts along the way.
More than other industries, crypto-native and traditional financial firms are challenged with numerous financial and regulatory requirements, while also managing security and governance risks on- and off-chain. Keela and Kyle talk about overcoming these challenges and building an effective crypto compliance program.
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The Dark Web is estimated at 5% of all internet traffic and 57% of content on the Dark Web is illegal. This marketplace for illicit products and services creates an economy to facilitate defeating cybersecurity and compliance controls, particularly with the advent of cryptocurrency to facilitate anonymous and pseudonymous payments. If you're responsible for security, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), or Know Your Customer (KYC) controls, you have to understand how the Dark Web is used by adversaries to work around or defeat your controls.
Communication and agility are key for IT teams – and so is just getting the work done. Navigating the common misconceptions and addressing the realities of IT integrations and separations during M&As is critical to help achieve successful outcomes – without continuously going back to the well for more funding!
"Start where you are with what you have."
1% improvement every day adds up to big-time results.
Keela and Kyle give real-world examples of automating compliance controls for SOX without investing in a mega-compliance software package.
Have you ever tried to prove you weren't speeding 6 months after the fact? Not so easy, is it? This is similar to the situations compliance teams face every day - proving an organization didn't do something it wasn't supposed to do months afterward. Kyle Pott shares his insights on compliance controls and how organizations can make it easier on themselves.
Conventional thinking often does not align with reality when it comes to IT M&A and divestiture programs. Part one of this podcast series takes a look at common misconceptions and recommendations to successfully deliver complex IT programs.
After running IT M&A programs and establishing the M&A practice for one of the largest privately held global technology service providers, Keela Davis partnered with Kyle Pott in establishing Decise to focus on helping companies design, plan, and run complex IT, compliance, M&A, and innovation initiatives using modern, agile, and cost-effective approaches to get to practical outcomes – Faster.
After more than a decade in technology and compliance functions, Keela and Kyle talk about the surprising ways the two fields intersect. Modern compliance systems can stand to benefit from agile software development practices and vice versa.