Stage 4: Roles and Responsibilities

This stage established the mechanism by which the Information Strategy was embedded within the institution by allocating responsibilities for implementing, monitoring and reviewing the Information Strategy through the appropriate committee structures and individual responsibilities. In addition to a statement of responsibilities attached to the roles of Information Custodian (i.e. those responsible for a set of information) and Information User (i.e. everyone who uses information within the institution). This may have been encapsulated in an Information Policy or a set of Information Principles. Alternatively in some cases this may also have involved reorganisation of information responsibilities within the institution.

Appropriate Committees and Management Boards have been established to provide top level support and to inform policy, and funding has been set aside for the development of a further programme of work. The Information Strategy framework will be agreed by CISSS and presented to the Academic Development Committee for approval.

Leeds Case study

The resulting matrix also identified the operational responsibility and accountability for each sub-process, and showed which individual or groups had the right to create, modify or access specific information outputs

Hull Case study

The case studies have very little information on this stage. This may be related to when the case studies were produced in relation to the process and more specific information would have been articulated in the Information Strategy Framework Documents which it has not been possible to access for this study.