Information Governance: Who's In Charge? - KMWorld Magazine Information governance is defined very
simply, with three words: compliance, cost and control. It has to do
with having control over information that has business relevance, and
determining which information doesn't have business relevance. There's
certainly no need from a compliance standpoint to keep information you
don't need, but more importantly (we'll get to that ‘more' later from a
cost standpoint as well. Why pay to store information you don't need?
We've seen a tremendous emergence of this cost factor recently.
