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Information Governance Steering Committee. Information Governance Defined. Information Governance (IG) is the process by which organizations promote desirable behavior in the creation, use, disposition and archiving of records and information
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Information Governance Defined • Information Governance (IG) is the process by which organizations promote desirable behavior in the creation, use, disposition and archiving of records and information • The goal of IG is to ensure compliance with laws and regulations, mitigate risks and protect the confidentiality of sensitive organization data
Why the need for a committee? • At first glance it may seem like the most expedient approach to IG would be for the senior records manager to create the IG policies based on his/her knowledge of laws and regulations and then just communicate these rules out to the business • This has an appealing simplicity but it ignores some basic realities • IG touches virtually every function within the organization and a failure to understand the needs of various organization users can ultimately derail the success of a program