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How to Create a Robust Information Governance Action Plan
Posted by admin in Info, Security Governance on October 6, 2011
In order to successful achieve each of the Information Governance (IG) standards of compliance there is a need to produce a range of different pieces of evidence that demonstrate how well your organisation adopts the IG principles. This desired evidence spans; job descriptions, training programmes, audit documentation, patient feedback mechanisms, patient facing documentation, policies, logs, registers, data mapping and a series of action plans for ensuring that Information Governance is at the forefront of the organisation at all times.
The NHS Information Governance Toolkit suggests that you have three key action plans in place to support the development and management of your IG framework within an organisation. These action plans are:
- An Information Governance Action Plan
- An Information Security Action Plan
- A Lifecycle Policy Action Plan
To produce a simple action plan you need to ensure that the following information is available:
- A list of relevant actions
- A date each action is due
- The individual responsible for the completion of the action Read the rest of this entry »
Effective Information Management Delivers Success to Your Organization
Posted by admin in Info, Security Governance on October 6, 2011
As we all witnessed the promising advancements in global technology which not only created a great impact on human life style, business psychology, culture, and environment etc but also exhibit a vital role to bind the distributed networks into a single centralized environment. I love to say that now we are living in a global technological arena connected through global tools, life is so fast and information flow is so high. At individual level, management is quite easy but how to quantify metrics when dealing with enterprise level.
Fundamentally, Information Management (IM) is the collection and organization of raw facts (data) from multiple sources and its distribution and dissemination to one or more audience. The most successful information management has been described as getting the right information to the right person in the right format at the right time. Many Organizations (public/Private) are investing to enhance Information Management best practices solutions. This is being driven by diverse factors like need to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of business processes, demands of compliance regulations and keen to deliver better solutions and services. To make a comprehensive Information management strategy, CIO’s need to take care of various Critical Success Factors which require basic principles and best practices to plan implement and deploy.
In terms of technology, information management encompasses systems such as: Read the rest of this entry »