*Information – a risky business, ISKO UK afternoon event – Thursday 24th
October 2013*, British Dental Association, 64 Wimpole Street, London,
W1G 8YS, 13.30 – 18.00, followed by networking, wine and nibbles
Information is critical to all businesses today, placing them at
significant risk if it is not managed and organized in such a way that
it can easily and quickly be found. Using case studies from the private
and public sectors and some highly experienced practitioners in the
field, this latest ISKO UK event examines the causes, threats and
outcomes of poor information management which put organizations at risk,
why this is relevant to knowledge organization and what mitigation
measures can be put in place.
Yasmin Merali, Associate Professor at Warwick Business School, will open
the first session by examining the complex nature of today’s information
network, the shift in user behaviour and the impact on organizational
resilience and robustness. Mark Merifield, Head of Information
Management Services at The National Archives looks at the disconnect
between our IT environment and business requirements and David Haynes, a
highly experienced information manager and PhD student at City
University, will draw on recent work within the charity sector to
demonstrate some of the knowledge organization approaches used to
address information risk in the context of overall organizational change.
In the second session, Roger Poole, currently Manager – Risk Consulting
at KPMG LLP and with considerable experience of Global Records
Management projects and programmes within the banking sector, describes
some of the recent significant changes in approach to information risk
within the Financial Services industry, a sector with a very high
profile in the news in recent years. He is followed by Christina
Somovilla and Aynsley Taylor, who will draw from their own experience at
the Financial Ombudsman Service to examine some of the difficulties
faced when trying to set policies appropriate to real business need, and
to consider how organizing information properly is the best way to
mitigate risk. Finally, Noeleen Schenk from Metataxis, a consultant with
many years’ experience working with clients to ensure effective
information management structures are in place, will explain how
businesses can use the risk agenda to drive improvements to their
information management – from the identification of their information
assets, to their management and organization. The afternoon will end
with wine and nibbles and an opportunity to discuss the afternoon event
with speakers and colleagues.
You will find the programme and other details of the event, and can
register until October 20th via the ISKO site
<www.iskouk.org/events/risk_October2013.htm>. The event is *free* to
ISKO members and to full-time students. The fee for non-members is just
*£40*. All fees must be paid in advance - there is no provision for
payment on arrival. Registration opens at *1.30* and we shall start
promptly at 2 p.m. Please pass this invitation on to any colleagues who
may be interested.
ISKO is a not-for-profit scientific/professional association with the
objective of promoting research and communication in the domain of
knowledge organization, within the broad field of information science
and related disciplines. Founded in 2007, our UK Chapter has been
attracting lively and steadily growing audiences to its afternoon
meeting series as well as its very successful biennial conferences (see
slides and recordings at <http://www.iskouk.org/events.htm>. Its third
conference was held in July 2013 on the theme of "Knowledge organization
- pushing the boundaries" <http://www.iskouk.org/conf2013/>.
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Leonard Will
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