Records Mgmt & Archiving

Information Governance is becoming a new generic term and notion to describe all corporate activities concerning information management compliance (IMC). However the challenge lies in the art of a consistent integration and consolidation of all related disciplines (strategy). This is tough and depends on each corp. culture and priorities of roadmaps. It's not easy to say here: "The whole must be more than the sum of its parts."(Aristotle)
... a lot of theory and noise in the big context of GRC (Governance Risk Mgmt and Compliance).
On the other hand there is a tendency to come down again to hard facts and first value and manage corporate data in the right way to serve the business and deliver the ROI.
like Tony Fisher's book Data Assets which is really interesting. The term "information" does merely appear here. But we can bill this story in a tangible way and the outcome is adding value and competitive strenght ....

Information Governance can encompass an endless list of topics:
- Enterprise Risk Mgmt
- IT Governance
- Cloud computing and data hosting, SOA
- Web and Enterprise 2.0, i.e., Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Yammer, Portals/Intranets, Wikis,
- Blogs, Instant Messaging, etc
- Rules of Professional Conduct/Lawyer Ethics
- Email management
- Knowledge management
- Virtualization
- SharePoint
- Managing multiple jurisdictions
- ECM: Electronic records management/electronic document management
- ILM
- Emerging technologies and trends, (Web 3.0/Semantic Web, Unified Communications, etc.)
- Conflicts of Interest/new business intake.
- Point applications being deployed which affect information governance (digital dictation, litigation support software, tax document prep software, etc.)
- eDiscovery: implications for firms and their clients
- Information security
- Web Governance
- IT risk control, business continuitiy mgmt, disaster recovery
- Computerized System Validation (Pharma)
etc.

Information governance seems to become a new runner: the upcoming ARMA Legal Information Technology Conference in November 2010 (San Francisco) has put it on the Agenda: Call for papers - the range of topics is broad - The theme of this year's event is, "Mitigating Risk and Maximizing Revenues With Information Governance." - see:

http://www.arma.org/lit-con/call.cfm

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Information Governance is becoming a new generic term and notion to describe all corporate activities concerning information management compliance (IMC). However the challenge lies in the art of a consistent integration and consolidation of all related disciplines. This is tough and depends on each corp. culture and priorities of roadmaps. It's not easy to say here: "The whole must be more than the sum of its parts."(Aristotle)
... a lot of theory and noise.
On the other hand there is tendency to come down again to hard facts and first value and manage corporate data in the right way to serve the business and deliver the ROI.
like Tony Fisher's book Data Assets which is really interesting. The term "information" does merely appear here. But we can bill this story in a tangible way and the outcome is adding value and competitive strenght ....