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Information Audit: Towards common standards and methodology
Peter Griffiths Business Information Review 2012 29: 39 DOI: 10.1177/0266382112436791 The online version of this article can be found at: http://bir.sagepub.com/content/29/1/39
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Information Audit: Towards common standards and methodology
Peter Griffiths Independent Information Specialist
Abstract This article further analyses a number of issues highlighted in a previous discussion of the current state of Information Audit (IA), and offers a graphical representation of the IA landscape. Library and Information Science (LIS) struggles to establish its ‘soft’ approach to IA as the leading methodology despite repeated endorsement by authors in other professional groups with some kind of interest in information management. They have found the LIS IA methodology using analysis of information needs and flows to be a useful analytical tool that allows them to evaluate information assets and to demonstrate compliance in asset management – whether those assets are financial, documentary or intangibles such as know-how. Since the implementation of Freedom of Information legislation, records management has espoused a strong focus on compliance and the
Information Audit: Towards common standards and methodology
Peter Griffiths Business Information Review 2012 29: 39 DOI: 10.1177/0266382112436791 The online version of this article can be found at: http://bir.sagepub.com/content/29/1/39
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Business Information Review 29(1) 39–51 ª The Author(s) 2012 Reprints and permission: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0266382112436791 bir.sagepub.com
Information Audit: Towards common standards and methodology
Peter Griffiths Independent Information Specialist
Abstract This article further analyses a number of issues highlighted in a previous discussion of the current state of Information Audit (IA), and offers a graphical representation of the IA landscape. Library and Information Science (LIS) struggles to establish its ‘soft’ approach to IA as the leading methodology despite repeated endorsement by authors in other professional groups with some kind of interest in information management. They have found the LIS IA methodology using analysis of information needs and flows to be a useful analytical tool that allows them to evaluate information assets and to demonstrate compliance in asset management – whether those assets are financial, documentary or intangibles such as know-how. Since the implementation of Freedom of Information legislation, records management has espoused a strong focus on compliance and the
Citations: http://bir.sagepub.com/content/29/1/39.refs.html >> Version of Record - Apr 23, 2012 What is This? Downloaded from bir.sagepub.com by guest on December 29, 2013 Article Corresponding author: Peter Griffiths Email: pdg@dircon.co.uk Downloaded from bir.sagepub.com by guest on December 29, 2013 Downloaded from bir.sagepub.com by guest on December 29, 2013 Griffiths The ‘Information Audit Island’ lies at the centre of the map, representing its central role in this discussion and its central Downloaded from bir.sagepub.com by guest on December 29, 2013 Downloaded from bir.sagepub.com by guest on December 29, 2013 Griffiths or information managers Jones and Burwell (2004) go further: No one wants an audit to occur