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).

Friday, November 14, 2014

Understanding the Chief Data Officer Role

By Gartner Research
Organizations may build their businesses on data, but they don’t necessarily manage it well. That’s why Chief Data Officers (CDO) can play a valuable role in helping the organization value its data across the enterprise. CDOs particularly are on the rise in regulated industries and Gartner predicts that 50% of all companies in regulated industries will have a CDO by 2017, according to Debra Logan, vice president and Gartner Fellow, in her session at Gartner Symposium ITxpo. CDOs Help Manage Data as a Corporate Asset “There is no coherent leadership strategy around corporate assets,” Ms. Logan said. Organizations [...]