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Gartner's Three Rings of Information Governance Help You Prioritize Different Types of Data

Published: 21 July 2014

ID: G00260885

Analyst(s): Andrew White, Saul Judah

Summary

Unless you categorize what information needs governing first (master data), you stand little chance of governing it at all. Our categorization model will help ensure effective governance of master data management, ERP, application integration and business process management programs, among others.

Table Of Contents
  • Key Challenge

Introduction

Analysis

  • Use Gartner's Three Rings of Information Governance Model to Categorize Data and to Help Decide, and Communicate, Which Should Be Governed First, and Which Later and Differently
  • Focus Information Governance and Stewardship Efforts on the Inner Ring (Master Data) Initially, Before Gradually Widening the Scope of Your Projects to the Middle Ring, and Finally the Outer Ring

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