Regulatory requirements are generally viewed as a burden by organization leaders. They issue warnings about not being compliant and give authority to specialists to drive large initiatives.
I continuously ask:
Are you allowed to be compliment ahead of a deadline stipulated in a directive?
Are you allowed to become compliant step by step in smaller chunks?
Are there any penalties if you contact a supervising authority?
Still, “everyone” is putting tremendous efforts into analyzing and planning everything before squeezing in a one-time big implementation just in time for the deadline. Only the compliance department is allowed to have a dialogue with the authorities.
After the deadline, there are , in my experience, plenty of unfinished issues to deal with. But management communicates success press and then presses on with more important business initiatives.
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