1. Information Governance Steering Committee

2. Information Governance Defined  Information Governance (IG) is the process by which organizations promote desirable behavior in the creation, use, disposition and archiving of records and information  The goal of IG is to ensure compliance with laws and regulations, mitigate risks and protect the confidentiality of sensitive organization data

3. Why the need for a committee?  At first glance it may seem like the most expedient approach to IG would be for the senior records manager to create the IG policies based on his/her knowledge of laws and regulations and then just communicate these rules out to the business  This has an appealing simplicity but it ignores some basic realities  IG touches virtually every function within the organization and a failure to understand the needs of various organization users can ultimately derail the success of a program