Most organizations have exploding volumes of data scattered throughout the company in various data sources: email, hard drives, shared drives, SharePoint, structured databases, wikis and the cloud. Information governance is the framework that can help an organization and its employees to organize, maintain, use and dispose of information across an enterprise in a manner that meets the organization’s goals and obligations.
It is not the records management discipline of years ago concerned with storing endless amounts of paper in a warehouse. Information governance is, in contrast, a discipline that addresses creation, use, storage, search and retrieval, security, retention and disposition of a company’s information assets. Information governance, however, cannot be implemented in a siloed fashion; rather, it requires a holistic approach to manage information across the entire organization.
