Corporate Privacy Group is dedicated to creating and implementing affordable
and sustainable privacy programs & solutions that drive business strategies
and goals. We are propelled by a concept we call 3PT - People, Policies, Procedures,
plus Technologies.
Our privacy model, 3PT, recognizes that privacy is primarily a people effort,
requiring knowledgeable and trained staff. All people involved in information
governance need structured guidelines with clearly stated goals and outcomes;
that's the policy part. They have to act according to known, documented processes
that are measurable, which is the procedures part. Finally, they must have the
most robust and timely tools and technologies to accomplish their missions.
Through long experience and much frustration we have found privacy programs
are often 'one-off' solutions, targeting a few problem areas and deploying tactical
solutions. As a result, many companies actually have several privacy programs;
one for HR, one for the Web, one for Direct Marketing, and another for IT. It
is rare to find these programs integrated through a common, consistent management
model; and they are almost never capable of surviving organizational changes.
We find this 'ad hoc' approach to privacy solutions to be expensive, limiting,
and ultimately unsatisfactory for protecting business assets or customer information.
And that's the point, isn't it? Why spend the money, management time, and overall
trouble to implement a program that fails to significantly reduce risk or raise
customer trust?
Corporate Privacy Group focuses on several 'framework' issues in developing
privacy programs that work for businesses. We believe a successful program is
'framed' by being:
Consistent with business strategies
Competent in reducing business risk
Successful in increasing customer trust
Organized logically for efficient management
Affordable for the value provided
Measurable by standard methods