What Is Information Governance?
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. IG also subsumes a number of disciplines such as e-discovery, data privacy, big data, architecture, operations, organizational continuity, and audit.
Broadly defined, IG includes the management of information within an organization or enterprise. It includes a broad range of policies, procedures, and technology used to manage the life cycle of information, from creation to disposal. Its central purpose is to ensure that information is managed in a way that supports an entity’s ...
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