Truth to Power is about the control of information. It is based on the premise that information is truth, and knowledge is power—both in business systems and in our heads. It is dedicated to helping IT, business, legal, and audit managers unlock the potential of information, allowing companies to dramatically improve performance and reduce risk.

Truth to Power is about connection: people to people, people to ideas, ideas to action. They say genius is the ability to link seemingly disparate ideas in new way. This site aims to prove that premise by helping the community to build complex ideas, business solutions, and information management frameworks—without hype, bias, or dogma. We do this in three ways:

1. By creating genuinely useful, unbiased research and resources that support new thoughts, logical leaps, and intelligent insight
2. By forging new links between typically insular or segregated disciplines, organizations, frameworks, and practices
3. By enabling and encouraging community members to share practical experience and expertise towards a common good

Everything offered on this site is vetted by these three goals. We try to spark productive conversations between IT and business managers, support the alignment of best practices and real practices, resolve the discord between what "experts" say you should be doing and what makes sense, dissolve the tension between audit and IT practitioners, reduce the impact of bad data on business decisions, unbind siloed systems, refocus myopic expertise...and on and on.

While these disconnects might themselves seem disjointed, they all share a common element: they can be resolved with better information or better information management. We exist to enable both. Very few analysts or publishers cover a holistic view of IT—especially from a control and risk management perspective. Fewer still try to understand the role of information management in the broader business context. And almost none focus on practical advice, useful perspectives, and insightful interpretation. These are voids. We try to fill them.

Finally, Truth to Power is about change. Thousands, of Web sites about IT; hundreds of articles on SOX, PCI, and other regulations; millions of words on information security alone. We are all deluged with "advice" on computers, compliance, operational management, risk management, information security, and vendor solutions. And yet, we're daily inundated with evidence of business failures in these areas. What is going on?

We suspect much of the problem stems from the failure of "popular" information sources, many of which do little more than state the obvious, offer ivory-tower advice, and/or regurgitate the basics. It's not enough. Meanwhile, analysts and consultants would have you believe that true insight comes at a price, although most analysis and research simply reflects a distilled aggregation of information that exists (for free) in many people's heads.

You shouldn't have to choose between useful and expensive. Thus, Truth to Power seeks to be a central locus that collects, amplifies, and shares truly valuable insight, largely for free.