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This article was published in African Mining Brief - July/August 2018

Information Governance Requires alignment between a number of functions and strategies.  At the very least these include:

• Alignment to corporate strategy, ensuring that benefits of information governance are clearly understood and communicated, showing how they directly assist the business in achieving its strategy
• Close integration with Corporate Governance, and especially as it relates to "Information and IT Governance" as is described in King IV
• Records management, with specific focus on  classification, accountability, security, retention and disposal
• Risk Management overall, .with specific emphasis on Information Risk
• Information Security and ensuring that information in all formats and locations is identified, classified and protected throughout its lifecycle
• Privacy.  In South Africa this means Protection of Personal Information (POPIA), but there could be GDPR or other privacy implications for organisations spanning multiple countries.   Read more information on Compliance with POPIA 
• Enterprise Content Management, and ensuring that all "unstructured information" is correctly managed, ensuring that duplication is minimised or eliminated, and that information is shared appropriately.
• e-discovery, and the ability to easily identify, locate and retrieve information which may be required for any purpose.  All information relating to a case or subject must be identifiable.
• Master data management and data quality.  The "structured data" residing in corporate ICT systems needs to be managed as an integral component of Information Governance.

Read The complete article - A holistic approach to Information Governance in the Mining Industry

This article was published in the Lowvelder newspaper on 23 June 2017.

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This article was published in the Financial Mail, discussing the implications of the New Companies Act on data storage.

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This article was published on the AIIM digital landfill blog.

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Office automation and document management technologies, also known as Enterprise Content Management systems (ECM) are uniquely positioned to help organizations reduce the impact they make on the environment. Using these tools may allow business processes to be dramatically improved and have a significant impact on the carbon footprint at the same time.

Going green is no longer a luxury. Compliance to the King III code requires that organisations incorporate environmental issues as a vital component of their integrated sustainability efforts. The paperless office seems to be a solution to help us on this journey, yet most industry veterans are of the opinion that this goal remains elusive, if not impossible. Yet there are things that we can and must do to reduce the volume of paper that flows throughout our organisations and out to our customers.