| Nandeep Mehta | contributorDeveloping a steering committee will be the driving force to overall planning, implementation, and execution of your information governance program. To best prepare, here is what typically gets delegated and what key questions you should be asking during the steering committee.
| Catherine Cook-Holmes | contributorGaining financial and moral support from senior leadership for information governance initiatives is key to a program’s success. Therefore, often the first activity of a newly formed IG committee is to develop a business case for senior management.
| Mark Diamond | contributorGood litigation readiness is less about good firefighting, and more about good fire prevention. Instead of fighting the fires, find a proactive way to consistently manage discovery requests in litigation and regulatory matters.
| Greg Forest | contributorDoes your company have a Data Security Classification Standard (DSCS)? A DSCS defines levels of security classification for records and information, and information handling controls for the repositories (systems and media) that contain them. Read more about this important piece of an Information Governance program.
| Bill Horn, PhD | contributorWe find that business need often exceeds regulatory requirements, and ignoring the business requirements for regulated records will only lead to users engaging in “underground archiving." With the importance of business need in mind, let’s consider the implementation of the Records Retention Schedule.
| Tom Mighell, Esq. | contributorThe terms “information governance” and “data governance” have become interchangeable when discussing how to manage an organization’s records and information. While they are related, they are distinctly different ideas.