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Hi Lawrence This article is very interesting, thank you for sharing it. I've always felt that information should be treated as a important organisational resource but as you say, it is not given the same weight as for example, financial resources. This is why it is very rare that there is an overarching strategy around records management in organisations. We have buildings, people and financial resources...information should be seen as the fourth resource. Within Newcastle City Council we have policies and procedures around Information Governance and we have an Information Governance Strategy at Corporate level but this work is limited due to lack of staff resources and therefore is not something that is well known throughout the council. I too would be very interested to know if there are any organisations out there who have a Strategy for records management that is company / corporate wide and is actually being used rather than being a document on a shelf... Thanks again for raising this Lawrence. Regards Sarah Sarah Graham UK Online Project Officer Newcastle Libraries Adult and Culture Services Directorate City Library Charles Avison Building 33 New Bridge Street West Newcastle upon Tyne. NE1 8AX e-mail [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Tel: 0191 277 4115 Fax : 0191 277 4137 Web www.newcastle.gov.uk/libraries I am currently reading "The Day of Creation" by JG Ballard and "Greek Gods and Heroes" by Robert Graves. ________________________________ From: The Information and Records Management Society mailing list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Serewicz Sent: 10 May 2012 12:16 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Governance policies solve information paradoxes | ITWeb [Does anyone have this covered in their organisation?] Dear All, The article linked below is worth a read. I think it captures many of the issues we face in trying to manage records and have our organisation work effectively and efficiently with records. What caught my eye was the final sentence in the article: "While we have good methods for managing application information and many good examples of process-specific or departmental information management efforts, what's missing in most companies is an enterprise-wide, strategic view of information." I would be interested to know if *anyone* has an enterprise-wide strategic view of information? I have suggested, elsewhere, that organisations do not yet know how to value their information (or their records) which makes it difficult to manage them. For example, if we saw information in the same way as we look at money within an organisation, we would manage it differently. Does anyone have a strategic view of their information or know of an organisation that does? If so, how did they achieve it? Thanks Lawrence From: The Information and Records Management Society mailing list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of PeterK Sent: 09 May 2012 19:59 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Governance policies solve information paradoxes | ITWeb Governance policies solve information paradoxes | ITWeb Sound information governance policies can help organisations avoid the confusion that is being created by the increasing volumes of information they have to grapple with. 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