ARMA Boise Chapter: Governing the Ungovernable Information Lifecycle Management in a Decentralized University
This session offers a practitioner’s account of establishing information governance at a large public university where ownership, lifecycle expectations, and system design have rarely aligned. Rather than presenting a finished model, this talk focuses on the honest realities of the work: what was inherited, where traditional policy-first approaches fell short, and how governance is being built as a decision-making framework rather than a compliance checklist.
KEY THEMES
– What “decentralized” actually means in practice, and why it complicates retention, holds, and disposition across legacy and modern systems alike. The University is really unable to distinguish between a document and a record.
– Governance as a decision-making framework. The distinction between having policies and having governance muscle, and why that gap matters.
– The cascade effect of new governance. When governance is established in one domain, it illuminates gaps in adjacent ones. Using Boise State’s University Budget Model as a case study, this session explores how new governance surfaces unintended connections and exposes previously invisible accountability gaps.
Knowing the boundaries of IT governance. IT project governance processes can be well-designed and still fail to position IT as a trusted organizational partner. This session examines why scope and framing matter as much as process design.
Connecting governance to the data layer. Early work tying governance approvals and metadata into the underlying data architecture, and what that approach intends to solve.
Cost:
$15/ARMA Member
$20 Non-member ($3 processing fee through website, or pay cash in person)