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.
- 2Basic
- Practice
- Define basic data ownership and governance plans.
- Outcomes
- Data becomes more manageable.
- Consistency and control replace the prior ad hoc, non-auditable environment.
- Metric
- # of departments represented in a data governance steering team.
- 3Intermediate
- Practice
- Define and share detailed data ownership and governance plans.
- Outcomes
- Data ownership plans are widely shared and followed across the organization.
- Standardized approaches improve 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, and enable more complex questions to be addressed.
- Metric
- # of data ownership audits.
- 5Optimized
- Practice
- Create, inform, and agree data ownership and governance plans with all key organizational stakeholders.
- Outcome
- Information governance is a recognized strategic advantage.
- Metric
- Availability of updated information governance plans.