Seeking information warriors.

AuthorHolland, Michael E.
PositionInformation Nation Warrior: Information Management Compliance Boot Camp - Book Review

TITLE: Information Nation Warrior: Information Management Compliance Boot Camp

AUTHOR: Randolph A. Kahn and Barclay T. Blair

ISBN: 0-89258-408-4

PUBLISHER: Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM International)

PUBLICATION DATE: 2005

LENGTH: xxi, 248 pages

PRICE: $30 U.S.

SOURCE: www.arma.org/bookstore/index.cfm

News broadcasts increasingly feature chief executive officers (CEOs) and chief financial officers (CFOs) doing the convict walk from courtroom to prison in handcuffs. These melodramas always manage to capture the attention of legislators, regulators, and the public. The legislative response to these high profile convictions has been to pass statutes authorizing more stringent regulations and rules regarding information management and accountability such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

While corporate scoundrels and boardroom charlatans are carted off to prisons for richly deserved prison sentences, it is likely now that newly passed federal requirements enacted to curb business corruption may have a negative impact upon honestly run corporations. Businesses and corporations manifesting no malfeasance at all may come to ruin from careless documentation and noncompliant information and record-retention practices. As satisfying as it may be to watch the likes of Bernie Ebbers and Dennis Kozlowski hauled off to prison in shackles for their greedy corporate dealings, it is ignorance of or disregard for information management rules, regulations, and statutes that present the greatest risk to most business enterprises.

The increasingly necessary implementation of information management compliance (IMC) is the focus of authors and consultants such as, Randolph Kahn, Esq. and Barclay Blair. Kahn and Blair are considered information management pioneers for having systemized and unified the body of management and legal issues that make up IMC. Kahn and Blair's 2004 book, Information Nation: Seven Keys to Information Management Compliance, served as a general introduction to IMC, and while it is helpful, it's not essential in comprehending and absorbing the arguments and recommendations put forth in Kahn and Blair's second book regarding IMC, Information Nation Warrior: Information Management Compliance Boot-Camp.

The purpose of their latest monograph is to assist corporate middle-managers in their quest to become indispensable protectors of their companies from risky and expensive information mismanagement. Kahn and Blair refer to...

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