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Implementing a compliance strategy

From the boardroom decision to daily operations — a practical playbook with models and templates.

Compliance becomes durable only when it is built into how a company decides, staffs, structures its data and operates day-to-day — buying a tool alone does not fix it. This practical playbook walks through the five stages of implementation (leadership, business, people, data and operations), grounded in the ISO 37301 compliance-management-system model and the IIA Three Lines Model. It includes models to copy and templates to fill in — a governance model, a compliance data model, a continuous-compliance loop, a maturity model, a 90-day roadmap, a RACI matrix, a KPI scorecard and more.

• The five-stage implementation arc: leadership → business → people → data → operations
• Governance with the IIA Three Lines Model and ISO 37301
• A compliance data model and a continuous-compliance (PDCA) loop
• Ready-to-use templates: policy, business case, RACI, product data, supplier request, roadmap, KPIs, register

Grounded in ISO 37301:2021, the IIA Three Lines Model (2020), GPSR and ESPR.

Companion toolkit — every template from this paper as a ready-to-use Excel workbook (fill manually or auto-sync from Conphora).

Compliance as a competitive advantage

How getting EU product compliance right has become a growth lever — and how to turn it into one.

Product compliance has shifted from a back-office obligation to a condition of market access: retailers and online marketplaces now check it before they list you, and remove what does not pass. This white paper shows why the same forces also make compliance a competitive advantage — faster speed-to-shelf, a measurable consumer trust premium, and resilience against recalls and delistings — and gives brand owners a maturity model and a five-step playbook to get there.

• Why compliance moved from cost centre to gatekeeper
• The real cost of an afterthought: delistings, recalls, lost time
• Four advantages: market access, a trust premium, resilience, first-mover readiness
• The Compliance Advantage Maturity Model + a practical playbook

Backed by PwC, Simon-Kucher, the European Commission (Safety Gate), Amazon and EUR-Lex (11 cited sources).