Plan

What You Need to Know

• Information is a valued strategic business asset:
  • Employees are responsible for managing the information they create and receive - including preserving, using or disposing of it.
  • Existing legislation, regulations, and policies must be respected at all times.
    
    
• Information Management (IM) principles and practices should be applied from the earliest point in the business planning cycle:
  • Early IM Planning integrates good IM into daily activities, making it easier to access information when it is needed.
    
    
• Consider what type of document you are creating. Ask yourself:
  • What type of information do I need to accomplish my work?
  • Who should have access to it?
  • Does the information exist elsewhere and can I use it to reduce duplication and costs?
  • Is this information of business value, enduring value or transitory?
  • How long is it needed?
  • How should it be stored based on its classification?

Tools and Resources

• To ensure protection – preparation, storage, handling, transmission and destruction, see:
  • Internal Integrity and Security Directorate 
  • Information Management
  • Information Categorization Tool