The Perilous Future of Decision Making in Information Management.
Information Management Journal › Vol. 33 Nbr. 2, April 1999
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The Perilous Future of Decision Making in Information Management.
We live in an increasingly complicated world. The legal environment that constitutes such an important part of our world is also becoming increasingly complex. This is true in our lives in general, and is equally or perhaps more true in our professional lives. New doctrines and ever more complex versions of existing doctrines govern our professional existence in areas as varied as civil rights, environmental issues, and information management. The proliferation of laws, cases, doctrines, and experts sometimes appears to create an impossible and hopelessly confusing situation for an information manager, but this is not the case. This article examines the increasingly complex array of duties surrounding the professional information management environment and some methods for responding to them.
There are a number of issues whose complexity has grown over time, and will continue to grow in the future. Each requires ongoing attention from today's information manager. Survival -- in several senses -- may well depend upon it. Records and information management as a discipline began life as a relatively straightforward process. A business developed and maintained a basic set of business and opera...See the full content of this document
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