Locate Information Steward Team at Visible Nexus
Stewarding information across work departments and teams necessitates links, relationships, visibility, and lines of communication at the highest level of the organization. Consequently, Information Steward co-leads will report directly to the organization's leader (CEO, President, Executive Director).
Given successful organizations rely on accurate, timely, and distributed knowledge, locating a coordinating knowledge function at a highly visible nexus of the organization attends to the importance of well-mobilized information.
With an effective Information Steward team linked across departments, they will expand opportunities for discovery, remove restrictions of knowledge sharing, and facilitate habits of purposefully bumping knowledge assets against each other.
With visibility into knowledge sharing across departments, the Information Steward team coordinates the exposure of decisions and actions based in part on those porous information-exchanging boundaries. These reflections on information for action reinforce the benefits of knowledge sharing and the proximity of the Information Steward team to senior leaders.
