What is Information Governance

Excerpt From The Process of Establishing and Maintaining Information Governance by George Dunn, President of CRE8 Independent Consultants Written Document Strategy Forum.

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THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXCERPT FROM THE

THE PROCESS OF ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING INFORMATION GOVERNANCE

BY GEORGE DUNN, PRESIDENT OF CRE8 INDEPENDENT CONSULTANTS FOR DOCUMENT STRATEGY FORUM.



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THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXCERPT FROM THE

The Process of Establishing and Maintaining Information Governance by George Dunn, President of CRE8 Independent Consultants for Document Strategy

Forum.

Many of the comments I hear from executives regarding information governance planning include:

"We don’t want to boil the ocean."

"There are too many conflicting definitions."

"No one follows it today, so why do it tomorrow?"

"With this pending lawsuit, we should have done it yesterday."

"Can you help us develop one?"

So, how should an organization approach information governance? I believe a Six

Sigma approach

define,

measure,

analyze,

improve and

control provides a framework.

Define information governance Gartner defines information governance as: "The specification of decision rights

and an accountability framework to encourage desirable behavior in the

valuation,

creation,

storage,

use,

archival and



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deletion of information.

It includes the processes, roles, standards and metrics that ensure the effective

and efficient use of information in enabling an organization to achieve its goals."

Chris Walker, an information governance and management consultant, defines

information governance as: "All the:

rules,

regulations,

legislation,

standards and

policies

with which organizations need to comply when they create, share and use

information."

With respect to the above definitions, I believe an improved construct is to

define information governance as the:

de jure,

de facto and

best practice

“information governance standards” that an organization must meet to ensure

government, regulatory, industry, customer and operational information

compliance, as measured within an internal audit function, with a clear

definition of priority if there is a conflict.

Before we get too busy integrating, modifying or debating the definition of

information governance, I think we should start by asking the following questions.

For your organization, what are the required information governance standards

that need to be complied with, or will provide benefit, in areas such as:



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