Discussion: Regulations and Compliance

Word count: 300

Chapter Eight (8): Information Governance and Legal Functions: According to the authors, Smallwood, Kahn, and Murphy, IG is perhaps one of the functional areas that impact legal functions most. Failure to meet them could be literally put an organization out of business or land executives in prison.  Privacy, security, records management, information technology (IT), and business management functions are very important.  However, the most significant aspect of all of these functions relates to legality and regulatory compliance from a critical perspective. 

For this discussion, identify the industry you will be writing about in your final paper and discuss the regulatory compliance requirements that the company has to meet and the corresponding security, privacy, and records management functions that would need to be enabled for that organization. Remember to cite your sources and critically respond to two other learners.

* Share an applicable personal experience


* Provide an outside source that applies to the topic, along with additional information about the topic or the source (please cite properly in APA)


*  At least one scholarly source should be used in the discussion. Be sure to use information from your readings. Use proper citations and references in your post
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Textbook: 

For this assignment, please read chapters 8, and 9 from the below textbook.

Chapter 8- Information Governance and Legal Functions
Chapter 9 – Information Governance and Records and Information Management Functions

Title: Information Governance, ISBN: 9781118421017 Authors: Robert F. Smallwood Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 2014-03-28

Portfolio Project: Milestone 1: Introduction

Word count: 2 pages

The project paper is broken down into 3 parts. For this piece of that assignment, you will write the introduction to your final portfolio project, comprehensively describing the industry you are choosing to use in the paper and preliminary challenges with information governance that you have identified.

Each milestone is a separate writing assignment, leading up to the final submission.

Expectations are that it will be a scholarly work, using largely peer-reviewed resources, formatted to APA 7 style. Grammar, spelling, and punctuation are significantly weighted. 

Scenario:

You have recently been hired as a Chief Information Governance Officer (CIGO) at a large company (You may choose your industry). This is a newly created position and department within the organization that was founded on the need to coordinate all areas of the business and to provide governance of the information. You will need to hire for all positions within your new department.

The company has been in business for more than 50 years and in this time has collected vast amounts of data. Much of this data has been stored in hard copy format in filing cabinets at an offsite location but in recent times, collected business data is in electronic format stored in file shares. Customer data is being stored in a relational database, but the lack of administration has caused data integrity issues such as duplication. There are currently no policies in place to address the handling of data, business, or customers. The company also desires to leverage the marketing power of social media but has no knowledge of the types of policies or legal issues they would need to consider. You will also need to propose relevant metrics that should be collected to ensure that the information governance program is effective.

The CEO and Board of Directors have tasked you to develop a proposal (paper) that will give them the knowledge needed to make informed decisions on an enterprise-wide Information Governance program, addressing (at a minimum) all of these issues, for the company. 

Note: plagiarism check required, APA7 format, include References, within 8hrs

Please provide discussion and project in separate documents.