The Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) will be the first Australian Government agency to deploy Office 365 for Protected email and collaboration, taking advantage of the platform’s Protected certification, awarded by the Australian Signals Directorate earlier this year.
Organizations look to information governance professionals to provide strategy tips and risk assessment. A key focus of their job is to comprehensively and intelligently classify corporate data.
It is often challenging when confidentially breaches and compliance concerns are acknowledged and addressed differently across a business. Some departments are much more attuned to the types of data breach risks their business is vulnerable to, while others are further removed.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing a larger role in businesses of all types. Companies are deploying different types of AI (e.g., machine learning and deep neural networks) across a wide variety of applications, including logistics. In fact, a recent McKinsey Global Institute report indicates that AI could produce up to $2 trillion in additional value in supply chain management and manufacturing.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies a strict regime when personal data is transferred outside EU territory. In principle, it requires that an equivalent level of protection and safeguards are still afforded to such data, when this is processed outside European soil.
It’s timely that we are currently running Tom O’Connor’s paper on Information Governance (first two parts here and here, more to come tomorrow and next week) because The Sedona Conference® (TSC) has just published a paper on defensible disposition, which is a significant component of any good Information Governance program.
Australian (AU) and New Zealand (NZ) businesses are trailing behind their global counterparts with only 17% of businesses digitally mature enough to build disruptive business models at scale compared to a global cohort of 22%. That is one of the key conclusions from research undertaken by Infosys, the global consulting firm.
Becoming a digital business is not as simple as buying the latest technology. It requires a fundamental shift in an organization’s culture and worldview, right through to its core systems. To pave the way, CIOs and IT leaders must take on the challenging task of overcoming dysfunctional corporate behavior and practices.
