Michael Stent, internal audit vice president at Zebra Technologies, sees a focus on relevance as critical for internal audit’s future and the value the function brings to the larger organization, especially in the dynamic technology industry. “Our stakeholders expect more from us, but at the same time they don’t always realize what an audit function can do. We view this as the “art of the possible” of what you can get out of an audit function,” says Stent. 

In this profile, Stent shares how his team is focused on predictive risk management as an alternative to using historical information to anticipate future risk.