Governance

The Role of a Successful Governance Model in Ensuring Business Compliance and Accountability

Governance models determine how an organization’s leaders interact with others at a business and clarify parties’ responsibilities. Although it is increasingly common for companies to have single models affecting all activities, establishing these frameworks for specific goals or priorities is another option.

4 Common Types of Governance Models

Before exploring how governance models keep companies compliant and employees accountable for their actions, let’s look at some of the most common types. Learning about them can make it easier to decide which one to use.

Zengenti launches Insytful, a governance tool for improving accessibility and website performance

Zengenti, the creator of Contensis, headless content management system (CMS), has announced the launch of its new accessible site improvement platform, Insytful, in an effort to ensure web content is universally accessible for all.

Launching officially ahead of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD, 16 May) Insytful aims to tackle online inclusivity by combining a selection of industry-leading tools and its own scanning technologies to monitor a website’s accessibility rating, performance and content quality, to improve user experience and SEO rankings.

Global Relay recognized as a leader in Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving 8th year in a row

Global Relay, a leading provider of archiving, supervision, eDiscovery, and analytics has again been recognized as a Leader in Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving (EIA) for the eighth consecutive year.

With over 21 years of experience in securely protecting its customers’ critical communication data, Global Relay offers an extensive compliant archiving and information governance platform with intuitive tools for legal, compliance, and business users, as well as proven scalability to meet the specialized needs of highly regulated industries.

Effective Ways to Optimize Project Management for Remote Teams

The outsourcing culture is thriving in the current business environment, and even if you’re not outsourcing any projects or processes to external partners, you still might want to consider adopting a more flexible approach to employee management, and allow them to work from the comfort of their homes. After all, why should an employee have to commute to the office every day if they mostly do their work on the computer – it’s just a waste of precious time and resources, and it needlessly inflates your overhead costs. 

Digital Fragility a "Ticking Time Bomb" for Enterprises says latest report

BOSTON9 March 2020 – Digital fragility has emerged as a risk to digital business that CIOs and CMOs are failing to confront concludes a recent report by Forrester, a leading global research and advisory firm.

According to the report, vital digital information sources and assets are at risk due to link rot, obsolete file formats and media, and vendor abandonment of online services. This can leave firms scrabbling to find or recreate digital assets, opening the door to loss of valuable trademarks, costly failures to meet regulatory crackdowns and poor corporate governance.

Beyond the short-term

OutSystems Announces Ground-breaking Advancements to Address the Growth of Citizen Development

LONDON - 3rd October – OutSystems, provider of the number one low-code application development platform, today announced a breakthrough offering that supports the speed and agility of citizen development while giving IT the control and governance to ensure app quality. The new features allow non-IT roles to build a wide variety of applications that can be evolved within the platform to support large-scale, mission-critical business processes.

Protecting long-term digital information is key to driving business value

Boston, MA - New research from the Information Governance Initiative (IGI) reveals that 83% of organizations aim to realize direct business value from their long-term digital information, across such areas as market analysis, product innovation, and customer service, but only a minority (16%) have a viable approach for proper governance and preservation.

Does Cloud Computing Take Away Too Much Control?

It’s not easy to ignore the hype surrounding the cloud. Businesses all over the world are coming to realize that cloud computing offers numerous advantages, from more productivity and capabilities to lower costs. These benefits have lead to the growth of a wide variety of cloud providers, each offering its own unique take on services and products. The result has been a groundswell of support as organizations of all types look to the cloud for solutions to common and complex business problems.

The How to Establish a BYOD Policy Infographic

It sound simple, give your employees the opportunity to bring their own devices to work. The company can perhaps be less aggressive in their cyclical replacements of hardware and your employee is happy because they don't have to lug around two devices, theirs and yours. I absolutely like the concept of Bring Your Own Device. But implementing BYOD and benefiting from BYOD isn't so easy. As an IT manager, it scares me that the employee's device may have control over the company's software and device. As an employee, it scares me even more that company's software could control my device and have access to my personal data. At the end of the day, this only goes well if you have established a good BYOD policy for your business.

CMS-Connected Video on Demand: iAPPS and Web Governance

On my "to-do list" is a mention of the availability of my In the Spotlight segment online as well as the rest of the May 2013 CMS-Connected show. One of the nice things about participating on this show with hosts Tyler Pyburn and Scott Liewehr is the chance to get to spread my wings to new CMS territory. Specific to this show, I had the opportunity to review Bridgeline Digital's iAPPS Product Suite for the very first time. Once I had a chance to get a demo and do some homework, I found I was quite impressed with this content management platform.