Strategic and Economic Convergence:

A Compellng Three-Legged Stool

The strategic necessity of implementing defensible disposal (and tackling Big Data) acquires renewed
urgency under the stringent new EU privacy safeguards for Personally Identiable Information (PII).
Reduced data storage propelled by more aggressive disposal in turn reduces potential liability for PII
violations, leading to optimized records management.
Thus the information economics and strategic benets of all three domains are convergently aligned.
Currently, no consultancy group (that I am aware of) is exploiting this powerful three-legged alignment.

Records
Management
Defensible
Disposal
(Big Data
Reduction)
Privacy

In late 2013, The European Parliament

voted on and passed new legislative text
on a General Data Protection Regulation
(GDPR). The relatively swift passage of
the new regulation is part of what is being
called the Snowden Effect; i.e., a erce
reaction to revelations about the United
States National Security Administration,
that captures among other things, personal
information related to European citizens.

Information economics is the discipline of analyzing the production,

distribution and consumption of information, with the goal of increasing
the value derived from data while reducing the costs and risks associated
with managing it. --IBM White Paper Build the Business Case for Better
Information Economics