What does leadership need to decide?
The first step pins down what the business needs to achieve, what's in the way across security, IT and AI, and who needs to decide, so you don't pay for more than the job calls for.
The senior lead who puts the recommendation to you is also responsible for the agreed follow-up.
I'm Behzad Motaghi. Before I founded Accel Comply, I held senior IT and security roles at Sentia, Crayon and Innofactor. At Accel Comply, every engagement has a named senior lead who works at board and executive level and takes what your leadership decides to your IT people and suppliers, so you don't have to relay it.
Behzad Motaghi
Founder of Accel Comply
The knowledge was there. What was missing was someone to get decisions made and acted on.
In my years on the supplier side I saw the same thing again and again. Companies had capable people and good systems, but security, IT and AI sat with an executive who also had a business to run, or with a leader who had nobody to test their thinking against. Proposals from three suppliers could be left on the table because nobody had time to choose, and meanwhile the business waited. I founded Accel Comply so leadership gets a clear recommendation to decide on and can get on with running the business, while your senior lead takes care of the follow-up.
From 2009 I held senior roles in IT, cloud and security and worked on risk, information security and compliance at Sentia, Crayon and Innofactor, before I founded Accel Comply. That is the level Accel Comply is built on: the senior leading your engagement turns technical detail into what the executive team and board need to decide, and puts the right questions to IT and your suppliers, so you don't have to be the go-between.
Leadership decides and stays accountable, while your senior lead spends their time on what gets the decision carried out: the conversations with IT, suppliers and the people doing the work. Along the way you get a written status as often as agreed, covering what's been decided, who's doing what and what's still open, so leadership doesn't have to piece it together.
Works in Danish and English
View LinkedIn profile (Opens in a new tab)Three steps from a decision that's waiting to a plan that gets followed.
The work starts with whatever is holding the business back, and after each step you decide whether it carries on.
A recommendation you can decide on
You get it in writing: the recommendation, what it costs, what happens if you wait and what's still uncertain.
You choose the next step
You can carry out the plan yourselves, stop there, or have Accel Comply follow it through with IT and suppliers and advise on new decisions as they come up.
Three things you can count on in every assignment.
Written for leadership
Recommendations put cost and consequences first, so the executive team and board can decide without a technical translator.
A no before you've spent anything
If there isn't time to do the job properly, or you don't need outside help, you'll know before you've spent anything.
Ready to hand over
Decisions, plans and documentation are written so your own people, or a leader you hire later, can carry on without Accel Comply.
What your procurement and IT people will ask.
When you need to approve Accel Comply as a supplier
Before you sign, you get the data processing agreement and a list of the sub-processors the work involves, so Accel Comply doesn't hold up your supplier approval. Security, access, retention and deletion are agreed before you share any material.
Language and location
Material is written in Danish or English, whichever the readers use, including when the board and IT work in different languages. Most of the work happens online, so you don't have to set aside time for on-site meetings, with meetings at your offices when the work calls for it.
Professionals and suppliers
Before work starts, you agree which systems Accel Comply can access and where the material will live. You know exactly what Accel Comply can see, and everything is with you when the engagement ends.
Capacity and who does the work
You call the same person from the first day to the last. Before work starts, you agree scope and timing around their availability. If a job needs a specialist, Accel Comply brings in a partner from its network.
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A few lines are enough: what the business needs to achieve, what's in the way and who in leadership makes the call. You get a reply about your own situation without having to set aside time for a meeting first.