Information Governance (InfoGovernance) is the specification of decision rights and an accountability framework to encourage desirable behavior in the valuation, creation, storage, use, archiving and deletion of information. It includes the processes, roles, standards and metrics that ensure the effective and efficient use of information to enable an organization to achieve its goals. Information governance should be an element in planning an enterprise's information architecture.

(Gartner Hype Cycle for Legal and Regulatory Information Governance, 2009, December 2009).

An Engagement Area (EA) is an area where the commander of a military force intends to contain and destroy an enemy force with the massed effects of all available weapons systems.

(FM 1-02, Operational Terms and Graphics, September 2004).

Saturday, December 6, 2014

The Continued Decline of the Homepage

By Gerry McGovern
Google is your new homepage. Every page you have is a homepage for someone. We must think beyond the traditional homepage. “The value of the homepage is decreasing,” a leaked New York Times report stated in May 2014. “Only a third of our readers ever visit it. And those who do visit are spending less time: page views and minutes spent per reader dropped by double-digit percentages last year.” “Across The Atlantic sites, the fraction of visits that begin on the homepage is surprisingly small,” Bob Cohn, editor of Atlantic Digital wrote in 2012. “About 13 percent of visits […]