Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 17 | Page 34

EDITOR’S QUESTION • Enforce data policies – Integrate user- friendly tools to configure, manage and enforce data policies to ensure customer rights are fully supported. As well as fulfil requests for data removal or correction • Streamline customer consent – Adopt technology that allows you to capture consent, manage consent and delete a customer’s information with the click of a button – without having to rewrite any code. With such streamlined tools, businesses can then create pages and features to re-engage legacy shoppers in compliance with new consent policies • Have a single view – Implement a dashboard that allows you to create new data policies and specify what data points should be included in specific policies. Each data point can refer to a specific piece of information about a customer and you can even specify the retention period for each policy. You should then develop the ability to tag and sort groups of customers that data policies relate to and see lists of data policies applicable to each customer and whether they’ve given their consent • Shopper visibility – Have the capability for customers to see the information you retain on them via easy reporting and automatically clear data when the defined retention period is over The secure management of personal data is essential for enterprises to create long- lasting relationships with their customers. By ensuring data privacy and respecting customers’ rights, enterprises earn and retain trust, and this results in increased engagement, revenues and customer lifetime value. www.intelligentcio.com