Information Governance Program Development
For those researching, developing, and/ or improving upon your organization’s Information Governance and Records Management Programs, what foundational corporate policies have you identified?
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Lindsay Hershner
Jan. 23, 2017I'm not sure if this is answering your initial question, but some other foundational ideas in our corporate policy include requirements related self-audit/assessment to the corporate policy, indexing, storage, transfer/movement, disposition, destruction, instruction for deviations to the policy, etc.
Lori J. Ashley
Dec. 28, 2016This article on the ARMA HQ site points to an important capability related to information governance, namely that IT personnel have expertise and knowledge about how business data is managed in an organization's computer systems that does not reside in operations personnel.
Lori J. Ashley
Dec. 28, 2016http://www.arma.org/r1/news/newswire/2016/12/27/court-compels-defendant-to-tap-knowledgeable-it-personnel?xtor=-[newswire_dec%202016%20(1)]--[Hyperlink_20161121_170909016]-[MjE2NjQxNTQ3MjA2S0]--&spMailingID=27432015&spUserID=MjE2NjQxNTQ3MjA2S0&spJobID=945464849&spReportId=OTQ1NDY0ODQ5S0
Tammy Goss
Dec. 21, 2016Can you explain what you mean by 'foundational corporate policies'?
Steven Bardouche
Dec. 21, 2016I think of foundational policies those initial building blocks for your program. For example, an Information Governance Policy may touch on all the primary facets of RIM, without getting too specific. The foundational IG policy helps pave the way and bring together related guidance such as record retention schedule policies, litigation hold policies, orphaned object policies, record ownership policies, data recovery policies, etc. As the more granular policies are developed, building out procedures and controls becomes less conceptual and easier to put into practice.