Good news! You are not alone if you dread the prospect of spending months on the diligence required to reduce your organization’s risks through data and information governance – and having to justify the time, effort, and money it costs along the way.
Better news! You’re not the first to tackle this challenge. Others have already developed methodologies and tools that can accelerate the journey from understanding the problem to taking definitive action.
So you don’t need to make a hammer; you can pretty quickly start driving nails.
I can’t speak for other firms, but Holly Group has several resources you can use to more quickly understand your needs, evaluate your risks, establish your priorities, and operationalize the results. Among these are:
- Key Questions guides on a range of information governance and related topics, helping you ask the right questions before committing time and resources to finding answers
- A policy evaluation rubric that provides a structured way to evaluate existing policies for completeness and clarity
- A templated risk register that helps you identify, document, rank, and prioritize the risks associated with your data and information
- An established maturity model that assesses your current effectiveness and coverage, identifies gaps, and drives the road map to your desired future state
- A powerful Accelerator that automates much of the work involved in creating an information inventory and data map, helping you rapidly establish a deterministic, definitive picture of your information landscape
These aren’t substitutes for thoughtful analysis or strategies tailored to your organization’s needs; they’re ways to make both more effective. And yes, we can help with those too.
The bottom line is that you don’t have to spend time creating tools or crafting methodologies that already exist. Simply start with what already works. Adapt it to your circumstances. Then invest your time, talent, and budget in making your organization better.
Let the hammering begin.