Right-Size the Information Governance Program
Stop viewing information governance as a separate project and incorporate it into the requirements gathering for business initiatives.
- Content is expanding rapidly and proliferating across devices and platforms. This growth is causing discomfort for risk management and compliance/legal professionals, and creating concerns about storage growth and worker productivity.
- Implementing an Information Governance (IG) plan is an overwhelming activity due to lack of business buy-in and a clear value for the time investment.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Govern your documents as an asset. Match your time investment in governing and controlling information with the value of that asset. Reassess the governance plan based on future information requirements.
- Make governance a requirement for new IT projects rather than a separate project.
Impact and Result
- This project will provide members with a scalable framework, committee guidelines, and the policy templates to quickly implement an information governance plan.
- For organizations that have business buy-in to implement an information governance plan, this blueprint provides an assessment of where to start and how to show value beyond just risk mitigation.
- A fully implemented information governance plan can reduce the amount of content in the primary storage, thereby reducing the per user cost of storage by 60%.
About Info-Tech
Info-Tech Research Group is the world’s fastest-growing information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals.
We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.
What Is a Blueprint?
A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
Contributors
- Over 30 companies provided templates, best practices, and information. Due to the sensitivity of the information, all contributors requested confidentiality.
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