Information Governance

  What is Information Governance? Effective Information Governance is a key factor in delivering strong Corporate Governance. An organisation’s information governance defines the rules and the roles for protecting information, ensuring its proper use and providing maximum value to the business. Information governance is also concerned with protecting sensitive information, […]

In Australia, New Zealand and around the world, the impact of social media and a 24/7 news cycle, has changed the ability of simple stories that would have been forgotten within days to be reported immediately and that the ‘trending’ of topics, indexed by hashtags (#) hurts the corporate world.  The […]

In the first article in this series (here) I described why ensuring consistent information about how the business is operated and what standards are expected to be met is part of the ‘common language’ required for effective corporate governance and why it is essential to safe and efficient business operations. Establishing and […]

Cyberattacks, data breach, privacy of customers, citizens and employees’ personal information, together with the opportunities to create value from data and information held by organisations – are major drivers for organisations to implement a strategic approach to the governance of data and information as part of good corporate governance. Information […]

The Information Governance Imperative Information Governance is a key issue for organisations in today’s security conscious world.  The imperative driving this surge in interest is twofold, but is essentially all about risk management: The fast pace of the evolving digital world can disrupt existing businesses that don’t have a proactive […]

Effective leadership of information governance (IG) is key to ensuring that appropriate strategies, priorities, policies and processes are successfully embedded in an organisation, both to maximise the opportunities and minimise the risks arising from the information it holds. Download Now