Five steps to being GDPR-ready

25 May 2018 is less than six months away. Karen Janssen, CIO at CTM (Corporate Travel Management), has revealed the five steps you need to take now to ensure you are GDPR ready. 

1               Employee engagement

Make sure the people in your organisation who need to know about GDPR understand that the law is changing and the impact it will have on the company. Assign a Data Protection Officer – someone to take responsibility for data protection compliance.

2               Sort your existing data

Consider an information audit to document what personal data you hold, how you hold it, where it came from and who you share it with.

3               Privacy and procedures

Review your current privacy notices. Check your procedures to ensure they cover individuals’ rights. Look at how you seek, obtain and record consent and whether you need to make any changes.

4               Legal basis for processing personal data

Identify your legal basis for carrying it out data processing and document it.

5               Data breaches

Make sure you have the right procedures in place to detect, report and investigate a personal data breach.

This post was written by Karen Janssen, Chief Information Officer at Corporate Travel Management (CTM), a top ten global TMC exhibiting at the Business Travel Show in February. To register for a free visitor pass and meet up with CTM (stand B620) to discuss GDPR and all of your other travel management needs.  

Meetings management – can you honestly say that you are achieving this successfully?

Meetings management – can you honestly say that you are achieving this successfully?  Having a general view of what you are spending is nice, but it’s not really managing a part of your travel spend which is no doubt growing higher and higher with little visibility and control. 

We know that TMCs are process and financially challenged by having to deal with meeting requests for venue finding, small number of attendees, etc. and do you really want your bookers spending hours looking for somewhere that doesn’t comply with your policy?  Whoever is involved, we know the process of booking meetings offline is very labour and time consuming.  62% of European companies admit they are not effectively managing this spend, and with 80% as offline bookings, it more than proves that the current process is outdated and disconnected.  The legacy systems are just not coping in today’s more accountable world.

Having a system that is fit for purpose for all users delivering a world class B2C experience for B2B users is where WIZME comes into the solution.  Built on an adaptable platform that can integrate into the corporate, agency and hotel venue systems, with minimum set up fuss and speedy adoption, with practical functionality that drives and reports the right choices, why wouldn’t you want to know more about it?!

So if you think there is room for improvement in your current meetings programme and you’re going to be in Amsterdam at the Business Travel Summit, then please come along and find out more about the WIZME end-to-end system that brings complete transparency, control and order to meetings management. 

Nour Mouakke is founder & CEO of WIZME - you can meet him and hear more about his product at Business Travel Summit Amsterdam from 26-27 September.