After decades of paying lip service to the notion of linking technology tightly to the profit-and-loss side of corporations, the rise of so-called information governance programs is cementing a kinship between IT departments and executives in business units that was impossible to envision just a few years ago. These programs strive to clarify and institutionalize unambiguous rules for the creation, collection, handling and protection of information, in hopes of ensuring that IT initiatives are developed and managed to better dovetail with the organization's core business strategies. The objective: to make information available, transparent and useful to people authorized to access it from the moment the data enters an organization's network to when it is outdated and stored.
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Get a Grip
Cause and Effect
The Technology Solution
Life on the Edge
Sidebars:
Techtalk: Fair Isaac Corp.'s James Taylor on automating the decision process
Related Links:
Opinion: Why Governance Matters
Expert Voices: UPS CIO Dave Barnes
Compliance: How BearingPoint Lost its Way
The Data Governance Institute: Provides publications, training and seminars about information governance and compliance.
The 7 Stages of Highly Effective Data Governance by Martha Dember.
How Much Information? by Peter Lyman and Hal R. Varian. A report that examines the amount and types of new information created each year and how it is stored.
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