University Information Governance: A Comparative Analysis Report

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of two journal articles focusing on Information Governance (IG). The first article explores the impact of social media on organizations, emphasizing the importance of risk management and the role of IG in mitigating risks such as data breaches and reputational damage. It highlights the need for policies to monitor social media usage and ensure safety, legality, and compliance. The second article examines the determinants of effective IT Governance (ITG) and its mechanisms, emphasizing its importance in both public and private sectors for achieving organizational goals. The report compares these articles, noting the importance of IG for organizational growth and the need for proper IG implementation to reduce security risks. The analysis identifies gaps in the articles, such as the lack of detailed risk mitigation strategies in the first article and the limitations of the sample selection in the second article. The report concludes by emphasizing the significance of IG for organizational success and suggests areas for improvement in future studies.

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Table of Contents
Article 1......................................................................................................................................3
Annotation..............................................................................................................................3
Introduction............................................................................................................................3
Analysis..................................................................................................................................4
Conclusion..............................................................................................................................5
Article 2......................................................................................................................................5
Annotation..............................................................................................................................5
Introduction............................................................................................................................6
Analysis..................................................................................................................................6
Conclusion..............................................................................................................................7
Comparison of two articles....................................................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................9

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Article 1
Haynes, D., 2016. Social media, risk and information governance. Business Information
Review, 33(2), pp.90-93.
Annotation
Usage of social media by organizations is growing at a very significant level.
Organizations in order to increase their growth level are incorporating all the strategies of
marketing and usage of social media is one such strategy. This paper aims to provide a
ground which shows that risk management paves way for information governance to be
implemented effectively.
Introduction
Promotion of products and services on one hand hugely depends upon social media
because they play an integral role in increasing the growth of the organization. Performance
of any organization on the other hand is strongly associated with marketing skill and
marketing skill in turn depends upon social media on a large scale. While including social
media into marketing skill, organizations should take into account the risks associated with it.
Risks mainly arise when usage of social media is free of regulations. Set of regulations thus
required for monitoring the usage. Web based applications such as Facebook, Twitter and
Instagram which are nowadays very popular amongst users are mainly used by organizations
for the promotion purpose. These applications involve risks in terms of their usage and the
reason is, these applications are semi-public forum where control over audience is infinity.
Here comes the field where the risks management fits well (Picazo et al. 2012).
Risks raised as a result of usage of social media are mainly-data breach, damage of
reputation of organization, threats for individual employee of organization, loss of

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opportunity and fraud. These risks are minimized by information governance if implemented
in a proper way. This paper mainly explores the question how risks management paves path
for information governance.
The article reviewed literatures on the concerned topic and then applied
explored the significant factors. Finally it provides insights of the study.
Analysis
This study explored the importance of information governance over social media.
Study identified the factors associated with the usage of social media and the effect of these
factors can be addressed by risks management. Paper finds that organizations should prohibit
the use of social media by workers at work and if this prevention is not followed by workers
necessary actions taken by concerned authority (Boudreaux, 2015).The role of information
governance here is to monitor the usages by employees. Information governance here acts by
implementing policies that are adopted. The study also focuses on the issue of safety, legality
and compliance.
This study on social media examined the policies and observed that social media
mainly used for publicity of organization, private use of social media should be prohibited,
and organizations should reach consumers in a positive manner, intellectual property rights
should be taken care of and finally social media should not be used as medium of criticism.
Demand of active management shown in this study to address risks associated with
social media properly and thus IG policies needed to fight against these problems. Study also
shows general data protection regulation (GDPR) will focus on IG policies and but policies
alone cannot address the risks some other measures should also be adopted by the
organizations.

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Conclusion
Social media usage increasing following a continuous pattern and this trend is
followed because the usage proved to be a noteworthy one. Social media have provided a
medium for organizations where they can reach consumers directly and using social media
consumers can segregate their choice before purchasing a product or using a service.
However, risks linked with social media should be handled properly and this paper observed
these risks and provided ways to deal with these risks. Paper have also shown how important
is information governance (IG) in the domain of social media.
Article 2
Ferguson, C, Green, P, Vaswani, R and Wu, G.H, 2013. Determinants of effective
information technology governance. International Journal of Auditing, 17(1), pp.75-99.
Annotation
Information governance on technology emerged to produce well-organized and
valuable use of IT. Importance of this governance is felt by both the sectors of the economy-
public and private. Mainly ITG implemented in private sector to reduce risks associated with
IT. This paper mainly aims to explore the relation between the effective implementation of
ITG and mechanisms of ITG.
Introduction
Numerous organizations are adopting ITG mechanisms to achieve desired goals. Thus
organizations included IT governance in its purview for better results. It is also expected that
ITG practices will improve the performance of organization. Thus existing framework of ITG
should be revamped. The initiation of ITG was 1990 and it was outcome of government
regulations concerning information policy issues. Effective IT governance will help to

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mitigate problems within firm which proved to be reason behind collapse of firms (Dechow
et al.,2011). This paper thus defines ITG as a framework of relationships and processes to
control the organization in order to achieve the desired goals. Paper also used the concepts of
provision of guidelines and recognized the practices in improving ITG.
ITG has proved to be a significant factor behind growth of organization and thus the
issues encompassing ITG should be given more attention. This particle study has tried to
address this issue.
This paper has surveyed several literatures on the same domain and then applied
research method to find the factors affecting ITG. Finally the paper suggested solutions to
issues arised.
Analysis
For understanding the function of ITG, a quantitative approach is used. This approach
involves collection and analysis of data. This particular study have differentiated ITG into
five hypothesis for identifying determinants of effective ITG-IT steering committee,
centralization of IT decision making control, involvement of senior management in IT,
position of IT function and finally corporate performance measurement system. This
identification of hypothesis is consistent with other previous studies on the same issue. The
hypothesis identified, tested by using multiple regression analysis. The findings shows that
none of the factors considered were significant while conducting study and reason behind this
finding may be sample collected lacks power.
Study provides empirical result that shows corporate performance
measurement system should be implemented and basic IT G mechanisms should be included
for effective ITG.

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Thus study using quantitative approach has shown empirical results that contribute to
better performance of ITG. The findings of the study are consistent with other studies on the
same topic.
Conclusion
The purpose of this paper to identify effective determinants of ITG was solved to
some extent. Study using regression analysis failed to identify significant result but the
empirical study by this paper have offered ground that organizations must follow to obtain
benefits by implementing ITG. It is expected that proposed suggestion by the study if
followed then ITG will perform effectively.
Comparison of two articles
The two journal articles reviewed shows that Information Governance is very
important for the growth of any organization. Articles showed that gap exist during the
implementation of proper IG. For the development of any organization IG should be given
more importance because proper IG would lower the risks associated with security issues.
Both the studies provided path for effective IG implementation.
The first article on social media usage which has shown the risks linked with social
media lacks to give proper explanation how to deal with risks by implementing IG. This
paper used generalized way to deal with the problem. Thus research gap existed in the first
article.
Now coming to the second article which concentrated on identifying effective
determinants have failed to identify factors and this is due to wrong choice of sample
selection. Thus before conducting this study, sample selection was a matter of review by this

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paper. This paper used a small sample for which desired results was not achieved. Instead of
using a quantitative approach the study could have used qualitative approach. Another
limitation of this study is survey method is perceptual.
The overall observation of two articles shows that IG is very important and should be
implemented for achieving goals that are set by the organizations.

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References
Boudreaux, C., 2015. Policy Database, Social Media Governance, 2009-2013.
Dechow, P. M., Ge, W., Larson, C. R. & Sloan, R. G. (2011), ‘Predicting material accounting
misstatements’, Contemporary Accounting Research,Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 17–82.
Ferguson, C., Green, P., Vaswani, R. and Wu, G.H., 2013. Determinants of effective
information technology governance. International Journal of Auditing, 17(1), pp.75-99.
Haynes, D., 2016. Social media, risk and information governance. Business Information
Review, 33(2), pp.90-93.
Picazo-Vela, S., Gutiérrez-Martínez, I. and Luna-Reyes, L.F., 2012. Understanding risks,
benefits, and strategic alternatives of social media applications in the public
sector. Government information quarterly, 29(4), pp.504-511.