8th CGOC Summit (Cambridge, MD). Feb 29 - March 1, 2012
Under the title "Improving information economics with information lifecycle governance", the CGOC summit takes place near Washington DC, in Cambridge Maryland.
see program:
https://www.cgoc.com/summit2012/program.html
Information Lifecycle Governance enables defensible disposition of unnecessary data by ensuring duties and value are tightly coupled with information assets. Under the impending weight of Big Data, defensible disposition and effective disposal of records has become a crucial challenge.
As experienced information managers we know that the tenet of information governance is tying value (intangibles) and legal duty with information assets. However the recognition and awareness of business information (content not infrastructure) as a corp. asset (intellectual capital, knowledge etc.) does not go hand in hand with the investments in IT. Moreover the business often consider IT functions and related disciplines as "plumbers" only. This is slowly changing in terms of culture as also IT is selling its services without putting the "I" into IT. Therefore Forrester has proposed since years to replace the term "IT" by the term "BI" (business information) because IT always has to serve the business which seems logic but the reality is often different, too technology oriented strategies because intangible values and information governance are harder to sell to the business than hardware and networks.
In this context Sunil Soares has written a brilliant book:
"Selling Information Governance to the Business"
(ISBN 978-1-58347-368-9 )
Get the book , it has a lot of case studies from practice from a broad range of industries. It will help you to make the business case.
In fact, "information governance will not succeed unless the business understands it, buys into it and supports it." (citation from the cover text)
Lookig forward to the CGOC summit. It's not about plumbing and plumbers.
Information economics has the concepts to demonstrate the value of business information and its role in making better decisions.
Hard to measure as we know - a long runner.
some good stuff may be found in the work of Urs Birchler and Monika Bütler (2007): Information Economics
PS: the foundation of good information governance is good data governance and mgmt.
see the first book of Sunil:
The IBM Data Governance Unified Process
see program:
https://www.cgoc.com/summit2012/program.html
Information Lifecycle Governance enables defensible disposition of unnecessary data by ensuring duties and value are tightly coupled with information assets. Under the impending weight of Big Data, defensible disposition and effective disposal of records has become a crucial challenge.
As experienced information managers we know that the tenet of information governance is tying value (intangibles) and legal duty with information assets. However the recognition and awareness of business information (content not infrastructure) as a corp. asset (intellectual capital, knowledge etc.) does not go hand in hand with the investments in IT. Moreover the business often consider IT functions and related disciplines as "plumbers" only. This is slowly changing in terms of culture as also IT is selling its services without putting the "I" into IT. Therefore Forrester has proposed since years to replace the term "IT" by the term "BI" (business information) because IT always has to serve the business which seems logic but the reality is often different, too technology oriented strategies because intangible values and information governance are harder to sell to the business than hardware and networks.
In this context Sunil Soares has written a brilliant book:
"Selling Information Governance to the Business"
(ISBN 978-1-58347-368-9 )
Get the book , it has a lot of case studies from practice from a broad range of industries. It will help you to make the business case.
In fact, "information governance will not succeed unless the business understands it, buys into it and supports it." (citation from the cover text)
Lookig forward to the CGOC summit. It's not about plumbing and plumbers.
Information economics has the concepts to demonstrate the value of business information and its role in making better decisions.
Hard to measure as we know - a long runner.
some good stuff may be found in the work of Urs Birchler and Monika Bütler (2007): Information Economics
PS: the foundation of good information governance is good data governance and mgmt.
see the first book of Sunil:
The IBM Data Governance Unified Process
jhagmann - 28. Jan, 10:05
