The line between your company and your suppliers, partners, and platforms used to be clearer. It isn't so clear anymore. Today, third parties are critical to how value gets created. They touch your products, services, customer experience, technology, data, AI, supply, logistics, and critical operations. They are also how risk gets transmitted. But the way many companies manage third parties was built for a simpler time. Why the stakes have never been higher In addition to the

There is a quiet crisis developing inside sustainability functions across Europe and North America. Organisations have invested heavily in ESG reporting infrastructure — CSRD frameworks, materiality assessments, Scope 3 measurement systems, TCFD-aligned disclosures. Their sustainability teams can produce a 200-page sustainability report with impressive precision. And yet when a supplier is found using forced labour in their tier-2 supply chain, when a greenwashing allegation