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).

Sunday, November 9, 2014

The Pendulum Swings: Practical Measurement in eDiscovery

By Herbert L. Roitblat, Ph.D
Until a few years ago, there was basically no effort expended to measure the efficacy of eDiscovery. As computer-assisted review and other technologies became more widespread, an interest in measurement grew, in large part to convince a skeptical audience that these technologies actually worked. Now, I fear, the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction and it seems that measurement has taken over the agenda. Some of the early reported cases involving disputes over the use of predictive coding and some proselytizing by pundits, including probably me, have convinced people that measurement is important. But we risk losing sight of the really important problem, that is good quality eDiscovery.