3 Information Governance Principles: Stop Making Copies - What Counts

Three information governance principles to make your business data reliable and accessible: stop making copies, focus on data creation, and touch once, use many times. Listen to the full episode and learn more at https://trailblazer.us.com/podcast/in... Clean dashboards and reliable data don't happen by accident. In this episode of What Counts, Lee Karas and Maura Dunn pick up from the shift from records management to information governance and move into the three action principles that actually get you there: stop making copies, focus on data creation points, and touch once, use many times. They trace how society lost its mindfulness about creating data from Sumerian clay tablets to the printing press to the Federal Records Act and walk through a painfully familiar example of how a single shared link quietly multiplies into four copies. Along the way, they unpack the reliability paradox at the heart of information governance: the more copies you make, the less you can trust your data. It's a candid, practical conversation about why these simple-sounding principles are so hard to follow, and why the tools we use every day keep reinforcing our worst habits. 00:00 Trailblazer Insight: scan your files for compliance risk 00:26 Welcome and recap: records management to information governance 02:00 The three information governance action principles 02:19 Principle 1: Stop making copies 03:08 How we lost our mindfulness about creating data 05:27 When collaboration tools fight back 06:29 How one shared link becomes four copies 09:04 The reliability paradox: more copies, less trust 10:11 Principle 2: Focus on data creation points 11:49 Who is allowed to change data? 13:24 Principle 3: Touch once, use many times 13:40 The Armadillo Ranch acquisition naming story 14:50 The real cost of bad data 16:36 Why these principles work across any data 17:20 Why our tools reinforce bad habits 19:14 Closing and credits New here? Start with the previous episode: Records Management vs. Information Governance. #informationgovernance #datagovernance #recordsmanagement #datareliability #compliance #WhatCountsPodcast