You Survived the Audit. You Didn't Learn From It.
You brought us in. We got you through the audit. We saved you millions. And then you went straight back to doing exactly what got you audited in the first place.
We've defended hundreds of Microsoft audits over 25 years, and we see the same pattern repeatedly: during the audit, organisations follow our guidance precisely, provide the data we ask for, challenge the miscounts we identify, and negotiate the settlement we recommend. The audit ends successfully, and then they go straight back to their old ways.
It's not that they disagree with our post-audit governance recommendations: everyone nods in the meeting, legal understands the risk, finance sees the cost, IT acknowledges the gaps. The governance recommendations get documented in a comprehensive report, the report gets filed, and nothing changes. Eighteen months later, we get the call again with the same organisation, same triggers, same gaps, and the only difference is the penalty amount.
This isn't stupidity; it's organisational structure. The people who managed the audit rarely have authority to fix the underlying problems because finance controls budgets but doesn't understand licensing, IT deploys products but doesn't track entitlements, and procurement negotiates agreements but doesn't monitor consumption. Nobody owns the gap between deployment and compliance, so the lessons from the audit get documented in a report that nobody implements.
In this live event, you'll learn:
- Why organisations forget audit lessons
- What actually needs to change
- The governance gap between understanding risk and controlling deployment
- Common post-audit failures
- What good governance looks like
- How the second audit differs from the first (less patience, higher penalties)
- How to actually implement change across IT, finance, and legal.
You should attend if you've been through a Microsoft audit in the past 5 years, deployed audit recommendations that were never implemented, wrote audit reports nobody acted on, manage Microsoft licensing budgets, or need to understand why governance recommendations keep getting ignored.
We've defended hundreds of Microsoft audits over 25 years, and we see the same pattern repeatedly: during the audit, organisations follow our guidance precisely, provide the data we ask for, challenge the miscounts we identify, and negotiate the settlement we recommend. The audit ends successfully, and then they go straight back to their old ways.
It's not that they disagree with our post-audit governance recommendations: everyone nods in the meeting, legal understands the risk, finance sees the cost, IT acknowledges the gaps. The governance recommendations get documented in a comprehensive report, the report gets filed, and nothing changes. Eighteen months later, we get the call again with the same organisation, same triggers, same gaps, and the only difference is the penalty amount.
This isn't stupidity; it's organisational structure. The people who managed the audit rarely have authority to fix the underlying problems because finance controls budgets but doesn't understand licensing, IT deploys products but doesn't track entitlements, and procurement negotiates agreements but doesn't monitor consumption. Nobody owns the gap between deployment and compliance, so the lessons from the audit get documented in a report that nobody implements.
In this live event, you'll learn:
- Why organisations forget audit lessons
- What actually needs to change
- The governance gap between understanding risk and controlling deployment
- Common post-audit failures
- What good governance looks like
- How the second audit differs from the first (less patience, higher penalties)
- How to actually implement change across IT, finance, and legal.
You should attend if you've been through a Microsoft audit in the past 5 years, deployed audit recommendations that were never implemented, wrote audit reports nobody acted on, manage Microsoft licensing budgets, or need to understand why governance recommendations keep getting ignored.
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