Time to forget technology and focus on information

Gartner is predicting that organisations which do not start approaching information management in a coordinated, enterprise manner, will ultimately fail in either their first or second year, and at a rate of more than 90 per cent. The thing being that while many organisations naturally want to exploit information assets, and do so by addressing issues around information overload in order to achieve efficiency and transparency objectives, they also want to ensure appropriate safeguards and measures are in place to protect sensitive information and minimise risk. The problem, according to Gartner, is that despite recognising the importance of the issue, many of them simply do not have the formal information governance programmes or strategies in place to enable them to follow through successfully.