Alan Carr

Alan Carr

A substantially experienced Senior Quality Professional, with significant abilities in delivering company objectives, and a strong track record in business improvements. Experienced in operational functions: quality, communication, continual improvement, man-management and productivity. A proven track record of leading cultural change. Dedicated to lifelong learning.
  • Joined: September 17, 2025
  • Articles: 2

Those internal audit sinking feelings

Internal audits have the potential to be game changing, but often, they do not and we see, perfunctory compliance, weak efforts by internal auditors, internal audit findings that could deliver positive changes, but no actions follow.
Here I explore and discuss some alternatives.

Adding value with internal audits

Audits do not add value. Actions on findings do. So, no matter how much work you do, reporting findings etc., if they are not relevant, written in context, meaningful or even agreed with, they are unlikely to gain traction, and your entire effort will have been wasted.