Governance 2.0 Concept

From MIKE2 Methodology

This is a Concept Article which is used to describe a key Information Management concept. The purpose of this article is to provide a general definition of this concept.

Governance 2.0 (also referred to as Networked Governance) is a collaborative approach to governance that makes use of Enterprise 2.0 techniques and technologies.

Some of the enabling features of Governance 2.0 include:

• A Collaborative Community. Collaborative technologies can streamline communications to capture content in informal network as well as build the formal.

• Organization of the Informal Network. Build a content model that is easily populated through user-driven categorization, informal collaboration begins to take on more formal structures.

• Aggregation of Ideas. Not all good ideas have to come from the inside. Social Computing techniques provide an easy way to bring linked content together.

• Linking the Informal to Formal. The same principle of applying content categories can be applied to formal governance processes.

• Searching the Knowledge Network. Enterprise Search techniques should be implemented to make this information easily accessible.

• Collaborative Asset Management. The maturity of your business and technology assets should be a known quantity and this information easily shared across the organization.

• Global Standards Bodies. Having an external perspective through a central authority can help to balance competing interests and work to a similar approach.

The Networked Information Governance Solution Offering is a Core Composite Solution Offering of MIKE2.0 that applies this approach specifically to Information Governance.