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Information Governance | Sharepoint and Office 365
Automation Should Get The Job Done And Be Defensible In Court by Jim Merrifield, Director of Information Governance for FileTrail, Inc. When is automation going to deliver the promises we have heard for years? Automation is software that automatically classifies records, starts the review cycle automatically, notifies re... read more How to Sell InfoGov to C-Level Executives by Jim Merrifield, Director of Information Governance for FileTrail, Inc. I attended three ARMA meetings last week and guess what topic all of them focused on? You guessed it, Information Governance. It is the hottest topic in the records management space today. If yo... read more Demonstrating the Business Value of Social Collaboration by Christian Buckley, Director of Product Evangelism for Metalogix Measurement of social sucks. And I'm saying this without having a clear picture of what needs to happen for it to be fixed. But treating internal social collaboration like your externa... read more
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Electronic Records Management (ERM) | Information Governance
Defensible disposition addresses the problem of over-retention -- organizations have been over-retaining electronic information and failing to dispose of it in a legally defensible manner when business and law will allow. The best way to address this monster problem is to break it into more tractable sub-problems: day-forward information disposition and historical informational disposition. I won’t go into a day-forward information disposition here, because it is an easier problem to solve. Let’s stipulate that it’s taken care of and focus on historical information disposition.
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Change Management | Information Governance
Follow along with this Slideshare presentation to learn how to sell Information Governance to executives. This presentation will help you establish an information accountability framework that reduces costs, manages risk, and optimizes value. You’ll learn how to: Get executive sponsorship Establish an Information Governance Program Identify necessary components, technologies, and instruments Assess the impact of mobile, social, cloud, and big data analytics Conduct a risk assessment and mitigation Automate records retention and disposition Identify necessary roles and responsibilities Measure for success *Presentation via Atle Skjekkeland. Feel free to use and reuse and repost and embed.
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A recent AIIM Industry Watch, Information Governance - records, risks and retention in the litigation age, highlighted some of the challenges associated with managing the accumulation of information at increasingly exponential rates.
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Gartner defines information governance as: "the specification of decision rights and an accountability framework to ensure appropriate behavior in the valuation, creation, storage, use, archiving and deletion of information. It includes the processes, roles and policies, standards and metrics that ensure the effective and efficient use of information in enabling an organization to achieve its goals." In a nutshell, information can be one of our greatest assets - the fuel that drives our business and its processes. But, it can also be a liability. Information Governance takes into account that in today’s business environment, mere management is not enough. Regulatory compliance and legal requirements – combined with the enormous growth of information has created the need to go beyond management and implement information governance. There are a host of governance categories that need to be addressed as you build your information management strategy. Below, we'll cover the key considerations for some of the top areas in need of governance: Content Governance Classification Governance Functional Governance Security Governance Retention Governance
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Information Governance | Intelligent Information Management (IIM)
Those of you who have been following this blog for some time know of my tendency to "find" information management "lessons" in everyday experiences (witness, for example, my post on Walgreens as a Process Revolutionary). Well, I've got to tell you, the past few days have been loaded with lessons on the challenges we face in the Era of Extreme Information.
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