Corporate governance and risk management are two areas that public and private organizations are starting to learn more about as scandals, both commercial or political, become visible to the general public and impact an organization's credibility, market value or future prospect. Atul Patel's SAP offers a way to mitigate risks through a structured approach to GRC.

We know Compliance and eDiscovery business requirements are driven by the need to manage different types of information risk – the risk of not being able to find evidence during litigation and the risk of not retaining records in compliance with specific legislation, or in other words an inability to access or organize relevant information. After all, why retain data if you can't search or organize it?

The collapse of the global financial crisis in 2008 highlighted the inadequacy of existing regulatory frameworks. That regulators would allow global institutions like Lehman Brothers to run freely amok and cause widespread chaos across other industries is a clear indication that governance isn’t working the way it should be.

Dr. Mark Moerdler suggests that to avoid potential legal or regulatory issues, it is important for enterprises to re-visit their information lifecycle and discovery strategy.

The Chinese government has vowed tougher punishment for local website operators which publish pornography and other obscene content, as it gears up its porn crackdown.

Power firm CLP Group talks about how they handle IT governance in their company, ensuring project implementations deliver real benefits to the company.

An Economist Intelligence Unit report finds China moving up the world innovation rankings faster than other countries.

The Hong Kong government said it has thrown much support to tech start-ups' R&D projects, but IT pros disagreed.

Tech pros in Hong Kong will audit various government departments' IT usage, said Samson Tam, Legislative Councilor representing the IT industry Thursday.

With compliance coming into greater importance across the entire organization, how do you tie together directives to align IT with business, improve operational efficiency and comply with security policies and standards. Robert Stroud, ITSM and IT Governance Evangelist at CA connects ITSM, ITIL and Governance and how organizations can make all three meet.