Case Study

Simplify GDPR compliance company-wide. Use a central service center to manage data protection efforts efficiently, cut costs, and boost compliance quality across all departments.

Challenge

This initiative has been successfully implemented for customers in diverse sectors, including healthcare, energy, marketing automation & asset management.
Our clients in these industries consistently faced one or more of these pressing challenges:

• Difficulty in maintaining consistent data protection practices across multiple locations
• Balancing local needs with centralized compliance management
• High costs due to redundant setups and conflicting GDPR interpretations among different entities
• Ensuring efficient responses to data subject requests and incidents across the organization

Roles

This initiative usually involves the following people & roles. They can be found either within your organisation or at a consulting partner.

• Data Protection Project Manager
• Senior Data Protection Expert
• Legal Expert
• Information Security Manager
• Data Protection Officer or Privacy Officer

Impact

1. Uniformity: Achieved uniform GDPR compliance practices across all entities
2. Efficiency: Streamlined data protection processes, reducing compliance-related workload
3. Risk Reduction: Significantly decreased the risk of GDPR non-compliance while increasing data protection & information security
4. Responsiveness: Improved speed and accuracy in handling data subject requests, response to incidents or DPA’s,..
5. Scalability: standard process to ramp-up other legal entities in a limited time – reusing existing templates, procedures, content,… .
6. Trust: Enhanced reputation and increased trust to be on prepared for any challenge.