With a maturing in understanding by both business and government of the role of information in good governance has come the question “what’s next”. The answer, of course, is to turn a reactive culture which deals with data issues into a proactive one. In the MIKE2.0 community we talk a lot about Information Development which is an approach to think about data as part of the business function and application rather than as an afterthought when someone starts looking for reports.
Most users of this site would be familiar with the Maturity Model which describes the attributes of an organization that has evolved its capabilities to proactive and beyond. The obvious question then is, “how do I organize to optimize”? The answer is not, I believe, to adopt the organization model of an optimized organization, rather it is to evolve to the structure of the next level up. The Centre of Excellence articles make a variety of organization recommendations. Do the Information Management self-assessment and then pick the model that is a stretch but not too far from where you are now.
My observation is that there is a tight relationship between information maturity and the governance structure that is in place. Like the chicken and the egg though, some organisations mature and hence naturally evolve to the right model. Others take direct action and put the these roles and responsibilities in place which results in the corresponding level of maturity. Cause and effect don’t matter, but if you take the former path it is very helpful to have the “back of the book” answers handy.
May 16th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Maybe Governance 2.0?
May 16th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Why is it called Governance 2.0? And what would be Governance 3.0?