Chief Information Governance Officer (CIGO)

Effective information governance is so important that it has become a C-suite role in many organizations, with an executive responsible for its implementation. The Chief Information Governance Officer (CIGO) often oversees the initial governance initiative, shepherding its development, management and ongoing evolution throughout the organization. The officer is generally responsible for maintenance of information integrity standards, gathering required quality and usage metrics and ensuring that the company meets compliance and regulatory requirements.

CIGO Responsibilities
A CIGO’s core responsibilities can be divided into four categories: leadership, strategy, technical and engagement.

• Leadership
  • Promote information and data management policies and strategies
  • Chair the information governance committee
  • Drive digital innovation
  • Promote best practice for information management
  • Promote the values of a data use and reuse culture
  • Promote improved digital capabilities and upskilling
  • Champion data literacy to support information management
• Strategy
  • Leverage the value of information assets (records, information and data)
  • Endorse the information governance framework
  • Advise and report to executive
  • Perform information management workforce planning
  • Oversee information risk management
  • Facilitate interoperability by design
  • Endorse information security
  • Harness business intelligence for decision making
  • informed of relevant legislation and policy requirements
• Technical
  • Implement information and data standards
  • Provide resources for tools, research and development
  • Ensure good information governance of ICT investment, solutions and infrastructure planning
  • Develop enterprise-wide digital capabilities
  • Drive information access and re-use
• Engagement
  • Build partnerships and collaborations
  • Facilitate relations between information and enterprise architecture
  • Cultivate internal and external stakeholder relations
  • Inform whole-of-government initiatives
  • Influence information and data legislation and policy