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

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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.

So said Debra Logan, research VP and analyst at Gartner, presenting yesterday, in Johannesburg, on how big data and extreme information are transforming business and IT.

http://bit.ly/KR1L7E

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