A Practical Guide to Information Governance

Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 1.1 Introduction   Most company directors and senior company officers take their Corporate Governance responsibilities seriously, they understand the mechanisms and processes by which a corporation is controlled and directed. They also have a good understanding about the roles and relationships that are required between the business, risk and compliance, audit, HR and even Information Technology (IT), and the standards and processes that need to be put in place to establish and maintain a company’s compliance obligations. Information Governance (IG) is a subset of Corporate Governance (which is the mechanisms and processes by which a corporation is controlled and directed), however, many of us struggle with its concepts. It is not IT (although elements of IT are a subset of Information Governance) It is an approach to managing information assets across an entire organisation to support its business outcomes involving multi- disciplinary structures, policies, […]