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Information Governance Roadmap
The Information Governance Current State Assessment provides a targeted view of the progress made towards Information Governance within your organization. Following the MetaGovernance “Navigating To The Future” process, the Information Governance Current State Assessment outlines the present position analysis, desired future state, and required corrective actions necessary to advance Information Governance within your organization. All work is based on the Information Governance Achievement Model to ensure that observations and recommendations are put within the proper context of your organization.
MetaGovernance uses a series of criteria to determine where your organization is positioned on the Information Governance Achievement model. MetaGovernance is able to begin this initiative at the department level, division level, or enterprise level, depending upon the scope of inquiry. Ultimately various data owners and data consumers will realize that the long-term answers to chronic data availability and data quality issues often lie outside their immediate areas, so the project scope tends to expand to ensure lasting solutions. This is inevitable as organizations make further achievements in Information Governance, but the initial current state assessment can easily begin on a more limited scope.
Criteria used by MetaGovernance are focused to determine how consistently an organization adheres to some form of Information Governance or Data Governance framework. We are looking to determine the overall level of awareness across the organization that Information Governance is not an isolated process. Specific criteria include some of the following:
- At what level is Information Governance placed within the organization?
- Is the focus on data or information?
- To what degree is data ownership assigned for major classes of data?
- Are the roles of data owners, data stewards, data consumers, and data custodians known?
- To what degree are accurate data definitions and glossaries available?
- Is data profiling actively used to detect potential data issues?
- What processes are available for cross-division data issues?
- Is there an Enterprise Architecture team focused on information architecture as a separate concern from application architecture?
- To what degree are quality metrics implemented?
- Are the reporting applications reconciled against general ledgers and sub-ledgers?
These criteria are a sampling of the information MetaGovernance collects when determining the current state assessment of Information Governance at your organization. Given this input, MetaGovernance is able to determine the level of organizational achievement, and provide the roadmap to move your organization to the next level of Information Governance achievement.
Completing an Information Governance roadmap does not need to take months or years. MetaGovernance delivers results in a matter of days or weeks, depending upon the size of the organization, or division addressed. The 80/20 rule is critical for the initial Information Governance roadmap so as not to get bogged down in unnecessary details.
Because the MetaGovernance Information Governance Roadmap is based on our “Navigating to the Future” processes, we are able to provide your organization with a clearly defined current state, and provide the navigational tools for you to achieve your Information Governance goals. There really is no need to “float around in the governance ocean like a ship without a rudder or direction”. Contact MetaGovernance to plot your course forward.
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