LINKIES. Management Consulting NEWSLETTER IV / 09

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LINKIES. Unternehmensberatung GmbH No IV / 2009 ‐ October 09
LINKIES. NEWS
RCLA 1 Services ı News 2 Global Reach 3
Regulatory Compliance & SAP Checks: LINKIES. and LINKIES. is there for you in
Legal Advisory – LINKIES. is ditis offer SAP Assessment Canada. Find an
at your service. Services to all SAP introduction on page 3.
customers.
News from
LINKIES. Management Consulting
Sven Kuhne, Partner
Legal Advisory Services & Public Relations
Welcome to the fourth edition of LINKIES. Unternehmensberatung covers paragraphs, court cases, implications on
LINKIES. News in 2009. I am pleased to important national and international corporate compliance ranking and
introduce our legal advisory services. laws, and industry‐specific regulations required solutions in a defined industry.
such as FDA, REACH, Sarbanes‐Oxley Act
RCLA describes the consulting areas for Additionally, LINKIES. offers special
(SOX), J‐SOX, BASEL, or SOLVENCY. A
compliance and legal advisory services. services around conflict solving and
team of industry experts and lawyers
Since we have seen that even large mediation with a focus on crisis and
provide a professional view on the topics
corporations and financial institutions insolvency prevention, as well as
from a legal perspective and translate
may have difficulties in identifying and commercial, company, and tax law.
corporate and commercial requirements
managing their risks, and to avoid crisis
into IT‐driven solutions. The combination of lawyers with legal
situations and bancruptcy cases,
expertise and management experts, plus
governments and leading governing Topics like data protection and privacy,
technology specialists makes it a unique
organizations have increased their effort quality assurance and documentation,
experience to work with our team.
to define rules and regulations that and compliance management are
target customers to implement more important areas, as well as risk analysis, We help with compliance and legal
sophisticated internal control systems. pre‐audit services, crisis management, questions. LINKIES. is at your service.
Non‐compliance may damage reputation and bankruptcy prevention and
and comes often with severe penalties bankruptcy advisory. Our specialists
that can be avoided. have indepth knowledge of legal Make the right choice.

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LINKIES. Unternehmensberatung GmbH No IV / 2009 ‐ October 09
Regulatory Compliance +
Legal Advisory: RCLA
LINKIES. provides the real deal in legal matters.
To strengthen the stability and to provide peace of mind to designed and implemented.
our customers, LINKIES. Management Consulting provides the
following services for Regulatory Compliance & Legal Advisory: ditis Systeme, a German based IT Security Consulting firm and
part of the international VOITH Group, and LINKIES. have
Consulting Services for RCLA joined forces to offer five SAP Assessment Checks to SAP
customers. Those checks will lead to a quick overview on gaps,
• Regulatory & legal compliance (fit‐gap analysis, no‐go areas, and required solutions.
assessments)
• National data protection and privacy laws Overview LINKIES. ditis Checks for SAP
• Compliance requirement definition and recommendations
• Compliance risk analysis and score card • QuickCheck 4 SAP (Authorization & Change Management)
• Legal advisory (insolvency prevention, business law • SecurityCheck 4 SAP (Comprehensive Security Check)
consulting) • HCM / Data Protection & Privacy Check 4 SAP
• Crisis management • RiskCheck 4 SAP (Segregation of Duties, Critical Functions)
• Industry‐specific regulations (consulting, audits, • Technical SecurityCheck 4 SAP
recommendations)
Please direct further inquiries to our partners, Mr. Sven !
Kuhne, Partner Legal Advisory at sven.kuhne@linkies.eu and
Mr. Ralf‐Uwe Stolarski at ralf.uwe.stolarski@linkies.eu.
Partner Update
The SAP Authorization Systems are among the most important
control measures for a successful Internal Control System (ICS)
and Corporate Governance. It provides huge chances for
transparency, security, access control, process reliablility and
Ralf‐Uwe Stolarski, Partner Regulatory Compliance, Germany
compliance. It also holds a great deal of risk if not properly
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Carol Pitter‐Kopp
Oakville Ontario Canada
A Trip to Eastern Canada coast and Labrador on the mainland to mining, fishing, forestry and agriculture.
the northwest of the island. A former Those have now been joined tourism,
This time, Indian Summer is calling to colony and dominion of the United film, technology, music and finance.
have a look at Eastern Canada where Ms Kingdom, it became the tenth province Quebec is a province in east‐central
Carol Pitter‐Kopp is representing to enter the Canadian Confederation on Canada. It is the only province in Canada
LINKIES. Management Consulting. March 31, 1949, named simply at the with a predominantly French‐speaking
Eastern Canada is generally considered time as Newfoundland. The change to identity, and the only one whose sole
to be the region of Canada east of the Newfoundland and Labrador was only official language is French at the
Province of Manitoba and consists of the made on December 6, 2001. Service provincial level. Quebec is Canada’s
following provinces: Quebec, Ontario, industries, such as financial, health and largest province by area. While the
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, public administration account for more province’s substantial natural resources
Newfoundland and Labrador, and Prince than half of the GDP, but mining and oil have long been the mainstay of its
Edward Island. Ontario and Quebec production and manufacturing are the economy, sectors of the knowledge
comprise Central Canada, while the other significant contributors. New oil economy such as aerospace, information
others make up Atlantic Canada. Nova discovery was announced as late ad April and communication technologies,
Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince 8, 2009. biotechnology and the pharmaceutical
Edward Island are also known as the Prince Edward Island is a Canadian industries also play leading roles. These
Maritime Provinces. Total population of province consisting of an island of the major industries have all contributed to
this region is between 22 and 23 million same name, as well as other islands. This helping Quebec become the second
people and represents about 70% of maritime province is the smallest in the most economically influential province,
Canada’s total population. nation in both population and land area. second only to Ontario. Montreal is the
New Brunswick is the only The province has lush agricultural lands largest city in Quebec, and the second‐
constitutionally bilingual province in the and pastoral scenery. largest in the country.
confederation. That is not to say that it is Nova Scotia is situated on the southeast Ontario (“beautiful water” in Iroquoian)
the only province that speaks French and coast of Canada and is the most‐ is located in east‐central Canada, and is
English. Quebec is a mostly French populous province in Atlantic Canada. the largest province by population and
speaking province, but English is spoken Halifax, its capital is a major economic the second largest after Quebec, in total
there as well. The province’s name centre of the region. Nova Scotia is the area. The capital of Ontario is Toronto,
comes from the French and English second smallest province in Canada at Canada’s most populous city and
translation of the town of Braunschweig 21,300 sq. miles. Its population of just metropolitan area. Ottawa, the capital of
in North Germany the ancestral home of below one million makes it the fourth Canada, is also located in Ontario.
the Hanoverian King George 111 of the least populous province of the country, Ontario is Canada’s leading
United Kingdom. but the second most densely populated. manufacturing province, accounting for
Newfoundland and Labrador is the Nova Scotia’s economy is traditionally 52% of the total national manufacturing
easternmost province of Canada and largely resource‐based, but has shipments in 2004.
comprises of two parts: The island of diversified since the middle of the 20th Please contact:
Newfoundland off the country’s eastern
century into important industries such as carol.pitter‐kopp@linkies.eu
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