Hooray for GDPR!

PRIMED developed for Transformation made for GDPR

OK so yes we've got bags of experience in our company, the senior stakeholders of IDE-International have indeed lived in the change and transformation world for a long time and they've seen it all before - sounds like any other professional change organisation to me?

But it was that 'seen it all before' experience that gave them their Eureka moment, because they were fed up with the way that they were constantly being asked to deliver results without a single version of the truth, where there was no way to tie up project data with enterprise data and in doing so, give businesses more insight to make better informed decisions. And so over a few bottles of wine and some deep discussion PRIMED was born.

From starting life as a solution to provide a single optic for the management of change, it became apparent that the solution has much greater capability, which led to us securing a significant deal to deliver CCAR/stress testing for a global bank out of the US. And then back in the UK, the solution was being used inside a major retailer to help them look at strategy and in line with a change in their strategy, successfully helping them manage cost reductions from a fast changing budget (downwards). PRIMED allowed them to pull together a single view of their organisation which also mapped the interdependencies across the business and so they were able to see the potential impact cutting costs would have on specific programmes and everything related to that programme, including manpower and contracts.  

We were approached by them to suggest that what we had was an answer to GDPR..... it wasn't built for GDPR and we are not GDPR experts (it seems like there are plenty of those available), but with PRIMED we can help you join all the dots (not just a few, but all) to allow GDPR to happen and importantly we'll help you understand where you are in the process and where you are going and while you might not be fully GDPR compliant by May 25th 2018 (but you could be if the desire is there), you will be able to show the regulators exactly the journey you are on to become compliant.

And so it's true, that while we didn't develop a solution for GDPR, we have one! GDPR itself, is such a wide subject and it's definitely challenging, but it also represents a massive opportunity for businesses, it's a compelling event with regulation that will drive behaviours and so it's your chance to drive the right behaviours! Yes it's going to take some hard work, some tough decisions and a lot of commitment, but think of the organisation you will have going forward, isn't is worth a little pain?

We say, "Hooray for GDPR" and hopefully the positive behaviours that it will drive.

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