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than a dozen key metrics that are accurate predictors of success and
achievement for the overall business case. The metrics tracked and
reported on should be closely tied to the business value or
trustworthiness of the information.
7.
Establish governance policies.
The action team determines governance
policies for the project and drives business adoption of the new
processes for governing data.
8.
Implement governance technology.
While the IT team implements and
integrates governance technologies for redaction, activity
monitoring, rights usage, and so on, the business representatives of
the action team help to drive adoption of the data as a trusted
source.
9.
Measure metrics and evangelize.
As with an ignored New Year's
resolution, we all acknowledge that this step is
very
important, but
most of us never follow through. Why? Often it's because of an
exhaustive list of metrics or difficulty gathering the information
after the fact. Pick only a handful of metrics that are easy to collect.
Evangelization is crucial, because that's when success, and therefore
momentum, is created.
Information governance is a business strategy that drives change to pro-
cesses and the people implementing those processes. Big Data certainly has
implications for governance technology, but the governance strategy and
structure that you are accustomed to laying down for relational data are
almost completely transferable to the Big Data era.
The IBM Information Integration and
Governance Technology Platform
Information integration and governance (IIG) in the IBM Information Manage-
ment portfolio is represented by a number of industry-leading technologies
that IBM has unified into a trusted information delivery platform under the
brand name InfoSphere. IBM has also invested in a well-defined Information
Governance process to help organizations plan their governance initiatives and
how it will impact people and processes. Although these technologies work in
concert as a single platform, organizations that require different components,
