Information governance: beyond risk and compliance

Information Governance is a logical and necessary development in organizations to benefit from the information society. This subject is becoming increasingly topical, mainly from a risk and compliance perspective, so a critical inquiry is appropriate. In this article the authors consider a number of aspects of information governance that go beyond the traditional thought of risk and compliance. CIOs are going to face serious challenges in the extensive digitalization of society with a rapidly expanding digital universe that is constrained by the continuous emphasis on IT cost reductions. The authors question whether the today’s CIO has adequate tools to effectively focus on policies and developments that are information-centric.