Chaordix(TM) Joins IBM Information Governance Council

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Chaordix(TM), a leader in delivering technology and know-how to help enterprises adopt crowdsourcing for business advantage, today announced it has joined the Information Governance Council. The group was formed by IBM in 2005 along with dozens of leading corporations, institutions and technology solution providers in a global effort to develop a "blueprint" of common solutions for challenges that apply to security, privacy, trust and corporate compliance issues.

Information Governance is the process by which companies govern appropriate access to their critical data by measuring operational risk and controlling security exposures. The Information Governance Council is working to redefine the management of information governance policy, the impact of policy on business processes and practices, and the enforcement of policy in IT infrastructure, information management and organizational behavior. Members of the Council are collaborating on ways to address these issues using solutions and business concepts from IBM and its business partners.

"The goal of the Information Governance Council is to address one of the biggest issues for businesses today - managing and controlling the mountains of data that reside within companies," said Steven Adler, chair of the Information Governance Council and program director, IBM data governance solutions. "Chaordix is a welcome addition to the Council as their perspective on the impact of social technology and open innovation sheds light on how democratizing data is proving valuable to enterprises."

Chaordix products enable organizations to engage a crowd via the web to submit, discuss and often refine and rank submissions to discover the most-likely-to-succeed solutions. Chaordix draws upon crowd wisdom and productive capacity for product innovation, market prediction, research discovery and brand input. The crowd may be public citizens, consumers or internal stakeholders like employees and partners.

"We are excited to be working with IBM and the rest of the Information Governance Council to help shape a new information model that fosters productivity and breakthrough knowledge," said Shelley Kuipers, president and chief executive officer at Chaordix. "We are in a period of profound evolution in terms of information ownership and governance. The potential benefits of collaborating with outsiders, partners, the public, even competitors to solve problems otherwise unsolvable are motivating leading organizations to adopt new frameworks for governance that are non-hierarchical and highly distributed, breaking away from conventional closed and highly controlled policies."

Chaordix will dedicate energy to the IBM Information Governance Council as part of its ongoing effort to equip enterprises to outperform. A new take on data policy and processes is a vital step in capitalizing on new web-enabled methodologies for innovation. Chaordix will join other market-leading organizations to shape the data governance framework that will equip enterprises to lead in the future.

About Chaordix

Chaordix makes it simple to seek and interpret input from the broad public, customers, employees and other partners. Delivered in a software-as-a-service model, the Chaordix crowdsourcing platform taps crowds for the business intelligence to innovate, improve operations, and reduce the risks of competing in the marketplace. The name reflects the fusion of chaos and order inherent in distilling wisdom from a multitude of voices. Find out more about us at http://www.chaordix.com. Chaordix is a proud venture of The Cambrian House, Inc.

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