The value of compliance monitoring lies less in the number of audits completed, or in the number of non-compliances raised, and much more in the standard of the responses to those non-compliances. Therein lies the most common deficiency in compliance monitoring systems: lack of rigour in responding to non-compliances.
Lack of rigour in responding to non-compliances increases the probability that the same non-compliances will happen again. As organisations become busier and more complex, the effect of non-compliances becomes progressively greater and maintaining compliance becomes more difficult.
This article is intended, albeit briefly, to address the above.