Information Governance as a Key Enabler of Successful System Design

  This is the first in a series of articles explaining how design information governance (IG) adds to the ontological and structural language that creates the ‘sensemaking’ framework for complex adaptive systems. In doing so, IG provides a foundational enterprise capability which enables adaptive behaviour and organizational resilience in the face of changes in the internal and external environment. Modern society is enabled by systems, some of them technology-centric like our road and rail networks, some human-centric like our system of parliamentary democracy, and some a more balanced mix like our health system. Successful systems are those that are effective in meeting the needs that they were designed (or emerged) to meet and are sustainable in the face of change. A key enabler of successful systems is appropriate design information. For example, the number and boundaries of electorates in our parliamentary democracy are periodically adjusted to ensure that the (design) […]