Information Governance Reference Model (IGRM)
A widely used framework that depicts how information governance unites the stakeholders and disciplines — business, legal, RIM, IT, privacy/security — across the information lifecycle.
The Information Governance Reference Model (IGRM) is a visual framework that shows how information governance brings together the different stakeholders and disciplines responsible for an organization’s information. It maps the relationships among business units (who use information to get work done), legal (duty and value/risk), RIM (records and information management), IT, and privacy/security across the information lifecycle from creation to disposition.
The IGRM’s core message is that information governance is cross-functional: no single department owns it, and the groups must align their interests — keeping information that has value and disposing of what doesn’t, under unified policy. It is a companion to the EDRM (e-discovery) model and is often used to explain why records management, legal, IT, and privacy need to govern information together rather than in silos.