[sigCR] Information – a risky business, ISKO UK afternoon event – Thursday 24th October 2013

[Leonard Will]

*Information – a risky business, ISKO UK afternoon event – Thursday 24th 
October 2013*, British Dental Association, 64 Wimpole Street, London, 
W1G 8YS, 13.30 – 18.00, followed by networking, wine and nibbles

Information is critical to all businesses 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 behaviour 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.

You will find the programme and other details of the event, and can 
register until October 20th via the ISKO site 
<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*. 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 <http://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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Leonard Will