Information Governance: A Core Requirement For The Global Experience

Authenticity: The Gateway to Admissibility

A major disconnect exists between managing the information lifecycle to meet operating requirements and enforcing information policies. This problem is primarily due to organizations not recognizing:

• Policy enforcement is the keystone of successful records management and
• Enforcement of enterprise records management (ERM) policies is an integral part of ERM management.

To address this disconnect, Cohasset Associates, Inc. believes that information governance (IG) – corporate information policies that comport with an organization's legal, regulatory and business obligations – is required. Implementing IG integrates an organization's information processes and lifecycles with its governance polices and controls.

With IG, organizations can achieve three key benefits regarding the management of their corporate information:

• Maintaining ongoing visibility of governance related activities,
• Enforcing and monitoring the implementation of corporate information policies and
• Providing an accurate record of how policies relate to targeted information – based on the common need of governance.

Effective IG provides organizations with the ability to uniformly enforce instituted polices to target individual business units, such as divisions or specific global locations, that have special needs or higher risks.

IG is not a project; it is an ongoing process that requires management commitment and resources – both to establish initially and, most importantly, to maintain over time.