Evolve

This stage provides the foundation for evolving your business policies, processes, strategies, and technology beyond simple compliance. Achieve business performance improvements by streamlining your processes and maintaining higher quality standards.

The evolve stage includes the following key elements:

Develop metrics that can be used to demonstrate the business performance improvements achieved through your compliance initiatives.

Maintain affordable compliance and ensure things do not go back to the “way we used to do things” with a defensible test and validation program.

Implement a “continuous measurement and improvement” philosophy to drive compliance rather than waiting for change to be driven by external auditors or regulators.

Monitor “compliance awareness” in your organization and implement programs to raise awareness at all levels.