ITGC

ITGC Discussion-1 (100 words and 1 reference) Information governance refers back to the specification of decision rights and accountability framework that assist to make suitable conduct in valuating, creating, storing, using, archiving, and deleting data (Tallon, Ramirez, & Short, 2013).  This encompasses principled decisions about information and information management (Hagmann, 2013). Examples of information governance at my workplace include the definition of roles and responsibilities of organizational members, the development of information governance procedures and policies, guidelines on incident reporting process, and managing third party access to information. These are outlined in the information governance charter that defines roles, accountabilities and responsibilities, defensible disposal, legal holds, and procedures, policies, and standards. IT governance refers to the framework for decision rights and accountabilities to promote desirable behavior in the use of information technology. It focuses on the overall governance of an organization with emphasis on the improvement of the control and management of information technology to benefit an organization’s primary stakeholders (Mangalaraj, Singh, & Taneja, 2014). Examples of IT governance at my workplace include the alignment of IT goals with those of the organization, increasing efficiency in the use of IT resources, and application portfolio management. Application portfolio management involves oversight of applications at the portfolio level, such as annual checks to identify risks related to compliance, availability, capacity, and legacy systems. Finally, data governance focuses on managing the usability, integrity, security, and availability of data used in the organization. The goal of data governance is to maintain information quality to ensure that reports, analyses, and conclusions are based on reliable, clean, and trusted data. Master data management tools and techniques are used at my workplace to promote data governance. Master data management helps the organization to clean its data to prevent inaccurate data.   References Hagmann, J. (2013). Information governance–beyond the buzz. Records Management Journal, 23(3), 228-240. Mangalaraj, G., Singh, A., & Taneja, A. (2014). IT governance frameworks and COBIT-a literature review. Tallon, P. P., Ramirez, R. V., & Short, J. E. (2013). The information artifact in IT governance: toward a theory of information governance. Journal of Management Information Systems, 30(3), 141-178. Discussion-2 (100 words and 1 reference) In a workplace such as ours, Information governance takes a major role by guiding our process and the environment. Information governance, stated by Smallwood, is “policy-based control of information to meet all legal, regulatory, risk, and business demands” (Smallwood). There are set standards of the way we process each step of our project. They are defined by the legal standardization of our policies and state what needs the business must fulfill. On the data governance aspect, we utilize data cleansing in our daily work to filter our work in order to fit the standards needed. Data Cleansing, defined by Smallwood, “strip out corrupted, inaccurate, or extraneous data” (Smallwood). I believe that data governance needs to be present from step one any project or task in hand as it “focuses on information quality from the ground up at the lowest or root level, so that subsequent reports, analyses, and conclusions are based on clean, reliable, trusted data (or records) in database tables”(Smallwood). Keeping our project on the right track while following policies can be strenuous at times, however, I believe the IT governance aids in simplifying the procedure. However, more than our team, the management, and executive teams have more need to use IT and Data governance in their daily procedures. IT governance always focuses on the software development and other activities of the IT department. It gives the company an overall guide that follows the legal and risk-prevention policies that need to be secured. So, in summary, IT governance at our workplace is more of a guideline to the procedural work we do daily (Smallwood, 2014). References Smallwood, R. (2014, August 18). Defining the Differences Between Information Governance, IT Governance, & Data Governance. Retrieved from AIIM Community: https://community.aiim.org/blogs/robert-smallwood/2014/08/18/defining-the-differences-between-information-governance-it-governance--data-governance ◦