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This is not a task to take lightly. We often see a list of principles lifted from a published source, plopped
into a document, and then mailed out with a decree that these are the principles. These rarely succeed.
Without review, participation, and buy-in, it is impossible to extract relevant, realistic processes and
policies. If the DG team and the constituents of the DG program are not immersed in the principles,
then there is no intellectual connection between policy and philosophy. The principles need to be
derived and refined formally, not casually.
While it is good to start with a “seed” list of principles, which usually comes from external
examples and existing internal belief statements, we also apply an internally developed technique to
act as a framework to ensure your information principles provide adequate coverage. Called the
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GAIP technique, it is based on a set of core principles that apply to data and information at a pure
business level. Refer back to Chapter 2 for more background on GAIP. Once the seed list has been
identified, we walk through each one of these core principles to ensure coverage.

FIGURE 10-3
GAIP(tm) List.