Information Governance, 2nd Edition

CHAPTER 6Information Governance Policy Development

To develop overarching information governance (IG) policies, you must inform and frame them with established principles, models, internal and external frameworks, best practices, and standards—those that apply to your organization and the scope of its planned IG program. Best practices within your industry segment are the most relevant, and there may be some that have been established within your organization that can be leveraged.

Your IG policy framework will actually be a collection of linked and consistent policies across multiple areas of the organization.

In this chapter, we first present and discuss key IG frameworks and models and then identify key standards for consideration.

The Sedona Conference IG Principles

The Sedona Conference® Commentary on Information Governance

In Chapter 3, we introduced the Sedona Conference IG principles. These can help steer your program and educate program stakeholders, especially in the early stages. A good exercise is to take the 11 principles and have a group rewrite them in their own words, referencing the organization's business objectives and scenario.

The Sedona IG principles state that IG programs should look at information as an organization-wide asset with associated risks that must be managed, while finding value; should maintain independence; should include all information stakeholders; must have an assessment to form strategic objectives; should have the resources and ...