PART I

A Guide to Information Governance—General Principles

Governance Overview

As its name implies, information governance (IG) is a comprehensive strategy for managing an enterprise’s people, process, and technology, with an emphasis on risk, legal compliance, information management, and business intelligence. Governance also subsumes a number of disciplines such as eDiscovery, data privacy, big data, architecture, operations, organizational continuity, and audit.

The goal of a governance strategy and framework is to ensure that the organization understands and is able to work together to execute leadership’s strategic goals and objectives, and that the enterprise and all of its employees and resources are operating as judiciously and harmoniously ...

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