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FUMSI Report: Folio on Accountability and Governance
19th January 2010
"It is a reality that we all work in dynamic and fast moving environments. Business decision-making is driven by information. Information is most useful when it is timely and valuable. Accountability and good governance make information visible and valid, like a golden thread that sews knowledge together"
- Joanna Ptolomey, FUMSI Contributing Editor: Use
Total pages: 53
Make the most of accountability and governance with tips from experts in the field.
Accountability and Governance is a FUMSI Folio, collecting FUMSI articles on a specific topic. Published in a convenient package and framed with editorial commentary from Joanna Ptolomey, our contributing editor for the Use practice area, Accountability and Governance is a must-have resource for the reference and skill-development library of any information centre or information professional.
Table of Contents:
Editorial Introduction by Joanna Ptolomey, Contributing Editor, Use
Using information to drive business processes, by Gillian Paterson
Information risk management: the benefits, by Jela Webb
Designing for the social: avoiding anti-social networks, by Miles Rochford
Get to Know Your Plumbing: Protecting Your Organisation From Leaking 'Soft Information', by Karen Lawrence Oqvist
Evolution in source evaluation: using social media data, by Emily Wheeler and Samara Omundson
Pharmaceutical industry: a discovery-led approach to social media, by Daniel Ghinn
If they only knew: finding competitive intelligence from the websites of your competitors and their friends, by Arthur Weiss
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