The managament of information created and retained at an organization is inextricably linked to the challenge of an efficient and thorough e-discovery process. Without proper guidelines surrounding how information is destroyed, collected and organized, an organization can find itself with ballooning costs as it sifts through volumes of uncatergorized information. While e-discovery cost containment frequently focuses on the process itself, data governance can proactively parse down and simplify that process in advance.
“Data governance expertise is as critical, if not more critical, than e-discovery expertise. If you don’t approach data governance in the right way, the volume of work regarding e-discovery is going to go off the charts. Data grows at an alarming rate, so you have to get a handle on it as early as possible,” explains Linda Luperchio, director of information lifecycle governance and e-discovery at The Hanover Insurance Group.
