Information Research Weblog

A slightly (unintentionally?) comic story from Ireland, which includes:

Close to one third of Irish CFOs (chief financial officers) have said that improving the quality of information management will be a key business challenge over the next 12 to 18 months, new research has found.

Makes one wonder what they've been doing up 'til now!

And:

One of the event speakers, Justin Scanlan of PwC’s performance improvement section, commented: "Following PwC's data management survey, three out of four companies reported 'significant problems' as a result of inaccurate data that led to added costs, failure to meet strategic objectives, poor service and eroded shareholder value among them. Information management is no longer an IT issue and is now firmly on the corporate agenda."

Ah! So that was the problem: information management had been seen as 'an IT issue'...