Internal Auditors as change agents: What a difference a year makes!

[Heads-up] Our co-authored paper just got officially accepted for publication, expected in May 2024. Thank you, dear Dan Swanson (Managing Editor at EDPACS, part of Taylor & Francis Group ) for the invite and the opportunity:

Lenz, R., Karmann, O., and Druckenmueller, J. (2024), Internal Auditors as change agents: What a difference a year makes! EDPACS, https://lnkd.in/g8-zkCBr (forthcoming in May)

Prologue 2024

Murdock (2024) beautifully delivers internal audit content via storytelling: the transformative journey from an underperforming Internal Audit Function (IAF) to a value adding, and respected service in the eyes of key stakeholders. There is much to learn from the fictitious “John Taylor” and his audit trail. There are many “John Taylor like IAF” out there in the real world.This story is about me, about “Rainer Lenz,” this story tells about my real-life experience. This article originally written in September 2015 describes my first-year journey and reflections as Chief Internal Auditor, after assuming the role as Head of Internal Audit at Villeroy & Boch in May 2014. “To better understand the plurality in practice, we need to study the practice”?(Lenz,?2013, p. 286). This is good advice, however, we hardly get insights into the real life of Internal Audit Functions for IAFs are literally INTERNAL.This article is a case-study. My first assignment as Chief Internal Auditor lasted from 2007 to 2013. This is about my second assignment as Chief Internal Auditor, commencing 2014, and it is about my first year in the role. I view myself as a change agent, and this article underlines that one year can make a tremendous difference. If I can be a change agent, the encouraging message is that all Internal Auditors can be change agents. I am grateful to my co-authors, both part of my small IAF at Villeroy & Boch Group.

I thank my co-authors for the joint journey. #StrongerTogether

The authors thank David Hill , CEO at SWAP Internal Audit Services (https://lnkd.in/epKMW3X4 ), for funding OPEN ACCESS.

#internalaudit #effectiveness #changeagent Oliver Karmann Jens Druckenmueller, LL.M.