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I have added a proposed definition of Information Governance for consideration. Some of the principles and thoughts I used in deriving this definition are as follows:
There is clearly potential for significant overlap with many other domains - Records Management, Information Management, Enterprise Content Management (ECM), data governance, IT governance. Despite the overlaps, there is a need for clarity on the governance of information that seperates it from the day-to-day use of information.
Information needs to be managed througout its useful life. This requires a deep understanding of the regulatory, evidentiary, and operational reasons to keep information, and the associated retention periods. This is not purely an IT function, as IT are not in control of paper records, and are not trained in appraisal and retention. It is also clearly not purely a records management function, as there are too many other stakeholders (including IT) who must be invloved. As a result,I have included the concept of multi-disciplinary structures in the definition.
I repeat the proposed definition below to facilitate discussion:
Information Governance is the set of multi-disciplinary structures, policies, procedures, processes and controls implemented to manage information on all media in such a way that is supports the organisations immediate and future regulatory, legal, risk, environmental and operational requirements.
Paul Mullon Paul Mullon (talk) 15:25, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
Great starter definition Paul. I like the emphasis on the multi-disciplinary structures. Information need not necessarily be non-captured, ie information can be passed by word of mouth. Good governance frameworks would ensure that key information was captured or possibly that it was managed within positions where there could be no one single point of failure? In addition I think that in 'governance' context there should be reference to ethics or 'desirable behavior' as in the Gartner. Good information governance should mirror the requirements and responsibilities of corporate governance otherwise it is just good information management? EL — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.135.180.40 (talk) 16:23, 31 January 2012 (UTC)