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Tidy up instead of buying on the spur of the moment
Update: Interview from Netzwoche by Daniel Burgwinkel & Bruno Wildhaber In Computerworld 8 of May 22, 2015 , Bruno Wildhaber looks at the basics of information governance and shows what a refrigerator has to do with your data management.
E-mail archiving: obligation or freestyle? (part 1)
Part One: Introduction Without a doubt, e-mail has fundamentally changed the business world and also private communication behavior in the last ten years. Today, business correspondence or private communication is mostly done by e-mail, as this electronic exchange of...
Unchangeability according to GeBüV Art. 9
In practice, questions about the implementation of GeBüV Art. 9 arise time and again. In particular, under which circumstances modifiable storage may be used in the archive. Here are the requirements for an archiving solution to be compatible with Art. 9 and for...
Book excerpt 2021 (6): Extreme collaboration as a prerequisite for successful information governance
"The greatest challenge on the road to unifying successful governance is the fact that no one function or department alone is capable of achieving the perceived goals and benefits." (Pugh H. 2012) - Book p.37, chap. 2.3.4 Organization of information...
The WG Fridge Blog (Season 1 Episode 2): The poisoning
Easter weekend 2016: Our residents have more or less pre-planned and as it goes, some go to their relatives or friends, others stay in the WG. Mona Geiger (personal descriptions can be found here) spontaneously decides to launch a party on Easter Saturday and invites...
Records Management as a Service (RIMaaS) – When experts are missing
The competent handling (information governance) of data is a new discipline that is only just emerging. New job profiles are developing, but the necessary professionals are lacking in most organizations. There is a lack of links between IT , business and legal when it...
Why paper invoices do not have to be kept in Switzerland
There is no legal obligation for companies in Switzerland to keep invoices (or other receipts) in physical (paper) form (unless they operate in specifically regulated industries): Since 2002, electronic commerce and electronic data storage have been promoted across...
The WG Fridge Blog Season 1 Episode 4: “Not Me – The Others Too”
Flashback: The poisoning at Easter triggered a wide variety of reactions. While some residents have almost forgotten about the issue, others are still highly excited and let the event reappear every day. Maria Locker has decided that it can't go on like this. Until...
Data Poisoning: Where Information Security and Information Governance Must Come Together
Die ganze Welt spricht von KI, Chat GPT, Open AI und co. Doch (fast) niemand kümmert sich um die Gefahren, die damit verbunden sind. Eine löbliche Ausnahme bildet das ZISC an der ETH in Zürich, hier befasst sich Florian Tramèr intensiv mit den Gefahren, die durch die...
Archiving and data protection: fine for failure to delete data
A landmark fine notice was issued on Nov. 5, 2019, by Berlin's data protection authority. Quote: During on-site inspections in June 2017 and March 2019, the supervisory authority found that the company was using an archive system to store personal data of tenants,...
E-mail archiving: landmark ruling by the ECtHR
Following the landmark ruling of the European Court of Human Rights (further sources at the end of the article) on the subject of "private e-mail use", it should be clear that it is imperative to comprehensively regulate e-mail use in the company (legally,...
Today’s programmer is yesterday’s typesetter
On the essay by Professor Lino Guzzella of 12.3.2017 in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (published as a letter to the editor in the NZZ am Sonntag of 19.3.2017) In a fitting manner, Professor Guzzella describes the need to keep pace with information technology and advancing...
IT Governance vs. Information Governance
IT governance in practice is classically concerned with all aspects of information processing, but not primarily with the business benefits of IT or the value of information in the organization. This is despite the fact that the relevant frameworks (e.g. Cobit) also...
Subject areas / disciplines of information governance
This chart provides an overview and distinguishes three main subject areas: Information Management Risk management IT Governance
Who owns e-mails (or what were Mrs. Clinton and Mrs. Leutenegger Oberholzer thinking)?
At first glance, the headlines seem to be primarily politically motivated: Well-known and lesser-known female politicians use private or business mail accounts to communicate in the wrong context. But let's leave the political level aside and deal with the relevant...
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