Please don't forget to reserve you place for
ISKO UK's next afternoon event, to think about the risks of
poor information management - and how to combat them (or even,
how to exploit them to get your boss on side!). The meeting
starts at 14.00 on Thursday 24 October at the British Dental
Association, 64 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 8YS, and concludes
at 18.00, when you can stay on for networking, wine and
nibbles. Reserve your place by October 20th; you will find the
programme and other details at <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*. Now, here's
an outline of the talks:
Information is critical to all public sector bodies 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 b_ehaviour 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.
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 <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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