Records Management vs. Information Governance: Cutting Through the Data Noise - E135

What's the difference between records management and information governance — and why should anyone running a business care? In this episode of What Counts, Lee Karas and Maura Dunn step back from the weeds of counterparty data to answer a deceptively simple question: what is information governance, and why is it the natural next step? Maura traces the journey from a world where creating a record was hard and expensive — clay tablets, hand-copied scrolls, the Federal Records Act — to today, where producing information takes ten seconds and most of it is noise. Along the way they untangle the vocabulary (governance is strategy and the "why"; management is execution), revisit the records-management principles that still hold true, and show how information governance helps you surface the small slice of information that actually runs your business. They close with practical moves you can make now: stop making copies, send a link instead of an attachment, and standardize and automate y...