Minding The Gap: Taking The Step Beyond Regulatory Compliance Into Effective Privacy Management Practices

As anyone who has taken a train knows, there is that moment when you must disembark, stepping from the car to the platform, traversing the threatening gap between the two. The same concern applies to a multinational organisation trying to bridge the gap between a moving and uncertain regulatory environment and the need to establish a stable and strategic corporate approach to privacy management.

Most multinational enterprises now understand that there are myriad privacy requirements, but it is the next step—"now what do I do?"—that causes most corporate challenges. Companies must translate regulatory requirements into actionable plans that can be implemented across an array of countries, business units and worldwide functions such as human resources. As corporations face this challenge, they often want to know how other multinational enterprises address these issues, vertically from the board level down, and horizontally across business units and diverse geographies.