Barclay T. Blair

Mr. Blair is an advisor to Fortune 500 companies, software and hardware vendors and government institutions, and is an author, speaker and internationally recognized authority on information governance. He has led several high-profile consulting engagements at the world’s leading institutions to help them globally transform the way they manage information. He is the president and founder of ViaLumina and the Executive Director and founder of the Information Governance Initiative.


Mr. Blair is the award-winning author of the books Information Nation: Seven Keys to Information Management Compliance; Information Nation Warrior; and Privacy Nation. He has written and edited dozens of publications, speaks internationally on information management compliance issues and has instructed at George Washington University.
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How This $2M Success Story Will Change Information Governance to Be Business- and Results-Driven
BY Barclay T. Blair
Dec. 10 2014
The best thing about running an organization like the Information Governance Initiative (IGI) is hearing about success from information governance (IG) innovators–sometimes, weeks or even months...
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Why We Should Focus on Evidence-Based Information Governance
BY Barclay T. Blair
Nov. 17 2014
Imagine that you want to lose weight. You have tried cutting back, but it hasn’t really helped. Maybe you should get a little more exercise. Maybe you should eat less fat. Or is it sugar? Greek yogurt...
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Defining Information Governance
BY Barclay T. Blair
July 17 2014
Five years ago, in March 2009, I first published an eBook called \"Making the Case for Information Governance.\" In the eBook I discussed—among other things—how to define information governance...
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