Slaying the Email Management Dragon by Getting Behind What Makes People Tick — Thinking Inside the Box

Discussion of the management of email is personal (to the user) and contentious (among vendors who claim to have a cure and IT executives who do not want to engage in an initiative riddled with risk of failure).  In my view, email management projects are sure to fail if one (legal/compliance/RIM professionals) does not address [...]

The Backdating Option

When corporate executives decide to secretly backdate stock options, they could be setting up their HR leader to take the fall — a risk HR would be wise to brace for.
By Steven Yahn
When it comes to the complex and, at times, sensitive matter of stock-option grants for top executives, HR can ill afford to trust [...]

Data Explosion Shakes Up IT

By Jeremy Kirk
September 13, 2007 – IDG News Service (London Bureau) – In just three years, the bytes of data generated by digital cameras, mobile phones, businesses IT systems and devices will equal the number of grains of sand on the world’s beaches.
It’s a mind-boggling estimation from market analysis company IDC. But it reflects the [...]

Senate Judiciary Committee Hears Testimony on Corporate Fraud Prosecutions and Attorney-Client Privilege

On September 18, 2007, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing titled “Examining Approaches to Corporate Fraud Prosecutions and the Attorney-Client Privilege Under the McNulty Memorandum.”  Several distinguished witnesses testified in favor of S. 186 — a bill that would curb an apparent trend of abuses involving requests for waiver of the attorney-client privilege and work [...]