Information Management Journal articles from January 1999

Information Management Journal archives from January 1999

The Value Added Information Chain.
January 1, 1999... Michael Porter introduced the concept of a "value chain" in the 1980s to describe the nature of buyer and supplier relationships with organizations. Porter's Production Value Chain graphically depicted the discrete activities in the process of...

Dynamic Office Politics: Powering Up for Program Success!
January 1, 1999... Office politics and all of the accompanying agendas have become such a pervasive factor in today's business world that the success of an information management professional is directly linked to the success of the record and information...

Lessons from Down Under: Records Management in Australia.
January 1, 1999... Records managers in Australia face many of the same issues and challenges as do their counterparts in the United States. In this article, a North American records manager currently teaching in Australia reflects on the differences yet...

1998 Index of Articles.
January 1, 1999... Subject Index Archives Management The Expanding Role of the Archivist Charman, Derek An English archivist/records manager discusses his views on the expanding roles of records and information specialists, roles which are...

Condensed Guidelines for Authors.
January 1, 1999... The Information Management Journal is a peer-reviewed quarterly publication of ARMA International. Its purpose is to advance the knowledge base of the Information Management field and to satisfy the growing needs and interests of information...

Emergency Management Makes Planning Easier.
January 1, 1999... Earthquakes, floods, fire, hurricanes, civil disasters, hazardous material accidents, etc. -- with ever increasing frequency the news media makes the world aware of the aftereffects of these disasters and emergencies. For businesses, the...

Copyright Law and the Internet.
January 1, 1999... The Internet and its associated technologies have improved our ability to communicate rapidly, and have provided us with instantaneous access to vast amounts of information. While this has been an undoubted boon for many, the road has...

Databases as Information Management Tools.
January 1, 1999... As business needs become more complex, software tools designed to address them also become more complex. Information managers are expected to understand how electronic business records are created and stored in computer systems, and to grasp...

The Promise of Project Files: A Case Study.
January 1, 1999... Information managers are familiar with project files as a subcategory of a type of office records usually called case files. While all case files are associated with specific persons, things, instances, or activities, project files document...

Records Management in Post-Soviet Russia.
January 1, 1999... Editor's Note: Readers of this journal may recall two articles on records management in the Soviet Union that appeared in 1993. This article continues where its predecessors left off -- with a discussion of records management in post-Soviet...