Unit three: Principles of managing information and producing documents
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Fitness for purpose
Getting your documents right
Information in documents can make a significant contribution to the effectiveness and efficiency of a business. Conversely, if documents are incorrect in some way, this can have an adverse effect on a business. For this reason it's important to get things right. One way to increase the likelihood that the right documents are produced is to apply the idea of fitness for purpose. Ensuring standards When producing documents the challenge is to ensure that each one is fit for purpose. There are two broad ways that a business can increase the likelihood that a document