Information Governance
Develop and implement authorization and decision-making approaches that are executed through organizational structures and activities.
Improvement Planning
Practices-Outcomes-Metrics (POM)
Representative POMs are described for Information Governance at each level of maturity.
- 1Initial
- Practice
- Information ownership is unknown or is unclear.
- Outcome
- No clear procedures for assessing data ownership.
- 2Basic
- Practice
- Share basic data ownership and governance plans.
- Outcomes
- Data is becoming more manageable.
- Consistency and control are replacing the prior ad hoc, non-auditable environment.
- Metric
- # Departments represented in data governance steering team
- 3Intermediate
- Practice
- Define plans for establishing data ownership and governance.
- Outcomes
- Data ownership plans are widely shared and followed across the organization.
- Standardized approaches are improving data management and quality.
- The data environment is now auditable.
- Metric
- % of data with assigned data owners
- 4Advanced
- Practice
- Plan at a high level so that plans transcend ownership issues to address more complex questions.
- Outcome
- Data ownership, access, audit, review, and life cycle criteria are broadly shared.
- Metric
- Number of data ownership audits
- 5Optimized
- Practice
- Create, inform, and agreed governance plans with a set of diverse organizational stakeholders.
- Outcome
- Information governance is a recognized strategic advantage.
- Metric
- ~ Availability of updated information governance plans.