Why do people share information? The answer to that question has important implications for every compliance practitioner and compliance program. Sharing is a primary method to communicate and connect. In any far-flung international corporation, this is always a challenge, particularly for disciplines which can be viewed as home office overhead at best; the Land of No at worst. Work to hone your message through social media. Part of this is based on experimenting on what message to send and how to send it. Another aspect was based See more +

Why do people share information? The answer to that question has important implications for every compliance practitioner and compliance program. Sharing is a primary method to communicate and connect. In any far-flung international corporation, this is always a challenge, particularly for disciplines which can be viewed as home office overhead at best; the Land of No at worst. Work to hone your message through social media. Part of this is based on experimenting on what message to send and how to send it. Another aspect was based upon the Wave (of all things); its development and coming to fruition in the early 1980s. It took some time for it to become popular but once it was communicated to enough disparate communications, it took off, literally. “It’s the same thing with social media. On social media, we think something will go viral because the art is beautiful or the science is full of deep analytics, but at the end of the day it really takes time to build the community.”

This means that you will need to work to hone your message but also continue to plug away to send that message out. The Morgan Stanley declination will always be instructional as one of the stated reasons the DOJ did not prosecute the company as they sent out 35 compliance reminders to its workforce, over seven years. Social media can be used in the same cost-effective way, to not only get the message of compliance out but also to receive information and communications back from your customer base, the company employees.

Three key takeaways:

1. What makes your employees want to share information?

2. Facilitate mechanisms which allow sharing with the compliance function.

3. The Morgan Stanley declination still resonates. See less -