What Counts?

Knowing how many contracts are depending on an asset in your company fully functioning at optimal capacity will help focus maintenance. Join Information Governance Consultants, Maura Dunn and Lee Karas, as they discuss a plan for having revenue generating assets.

Real-life examples of how detailed design documents may not help in finding your assets without asset definitions and naming conventions.

The challenge is to trace the important data that meets your asset definitions and get it into your systems so that your information is up to date.

Deciding on practical asset IDs does not have to be difficult and should not include building meaning into a long string of characters.

Deciding on practical definitions for your infrastructure assets. What key factors can you use to help define these assets?

Why is it important for your whole company to have the same understanding on what are its physical assets? You’ll be surprised by the answers you get when you ask different parts of your organization to define what constitutes an asset.

An introduction to asset data management for physical infrastructure assets.

Records Process Maps are an excellent way to help uncover and reduce the number of silos within an organization.

What information governance professionals can do to help their organization ensure the correct data gets delivered to the new organization.

A merger is a great opportunity for an information governance professional to help their organization get through all the data challenges.

How can an IG professional help prepare their organization to handle an M&A event and better position themselves in the process?

Would an ECM solution be the right fit for your organization to use to manage email?

Steps to email management.

The Importance of Email Management

2023 Episode 48 – Who knows what lurks behind the use of spreadsheets in your organization? Could spreadsheets be masking serious information governance issues? Join information governance consultants, Maura Dunn and Lee Karas, as they share the top three issues masked by the use of spreadsheets at various organizations. Each episode contains powerful information to help improve the visibility of...

Best kept secret to implementing process improvement

Top 5 IG Challenges

Does your organization struggle with whether or not to capture chats, text messages, or to record conference calls?

Do you struggle to have your Records Retention Schedule gain utilization across your organization?

Each episode contains powerful information to help improve the visibility of your information governance program and increase its effectiveness across your organization.

2022 Episode 42 – Connecting information classification with your organization’s records retention schedule can help protect high risk records. Selecting the correct classification levels and applying those classifications to record categories in your records retention schedule will result in more practical implementation. In this episode, your hosts, Maura Dunn and Lee Karas, provide guidance on...

2022 Episode 41 – Creating a practical records retention schedule for your organization to implement should not be a complicated endeavor. More and more, organizations are encountering challenges to managing their records making it important to keep what is necessary and remove what is not. Some organizations choose to ignore the risks associated with storing unnecessary information too long, and...

2022 Episode 40 – Policy implementation is made easier when policies contain the “what needs to happen” and procedures contain the “how to make it happen”. Both work best when policy creation becomes a collaborative approach and the group that dictates the “what” works closely with the group or groups that help implement the “how”. In this episode, your hosts, Maura Dunn and Lee Karas, give policy...

2022 Episode 39 – Policy development has evolved over time. There are some do’s and don’ts in this episode that you should know. We look at how policies have evolved over time and how to best develop policies in today’s day and age for your organization as they relate to information governance. Your hosts, Maura Dunn and Lee Karas, describe the process of information governance policy development....

2022 Episode 38 – Tracking asset data is essential for making informed decisions. Does your company keep asset data in separate siloed systems? Are manual processes needed to link the appropriate asset information from system to system? In this episode, we look at asset data challenges related to varying asset identification and naming methods that are prevalent within most asset-heavy organizatio...