The PRIMARY purpose of information governance is to set direction for information management capabilities through prioritization and decision making. Information governance is the overall strategy for information at an organization. It balances the risk that information presents with the value that information provides1. Information governance helps with legal compliance, operational transparency, and reducing expenditures associated with legal discovery1. To achieve this, information governance requires setting direction for information management capabilities through prioritization and decision making. This involves defining and implementing policies and processes for the effective and efficient acquisition, storage, distribution, usage, and disposal of information in alignment with business objectives and regulatory requirements2. It also involves ensuring the protection of information quality, integrity, availability, confidentiality, and ownership2. By setting direction for information management capabilities through prioritization and decision making, information governance can help to optimize the value and minimize the risk of information assets. References :=

Information governance - Wikipedia1

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