Governance Documents – the essential building blocks of 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, preserving and sharing knowledge, keeping records and mitigating information risks. Why is it important to corporate governance? Good information governance supports an organisation’s strategic objectives and corporate governance approach in a very pragmatic way by providing the tangible mechanisms (intellectual, architectural and procedural) for getting the right information to the right people at the right time to support business operations. What are governance documents? Governance documents are the tools through which direction and guidance is formally given to business operations. They are the policies, standards, procedures and data capture tools that define the minimum operating requirements for running the business. […]