IDM January/February 2004

Bringing the House down

The argument over the documents the British Government used to justify going to war with Iraq, the apparent suicide of an eminent biological weapons expert who disputed the government's claims, and the subsequent inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death, almost brought Tony Blair's government to the brink of collapse and may still prove to be its undoing.

Tool of the trades

Necessity proves to be the mother of invention again as one of Australia's foremost construction firms develops an all-encompassing document management system to keep its workers across the globe in the loop at all times.

Highway to government pay

Claiming compensation from the government; housing benefit; social security benefit; veteran allowances and other payments used to be a painfully slow process until a revolutionary online service was introduced to cope with the complex legislative guidelines.

Project health checks

The disciplines of project governance have been well defined for many years and qualified and accredited project managers abound, yet the problems continue unabated..

Pulling our SOX up

Sarbanes-Oxley requires a new standard of record keeping.

This message will self destruct

Or will it? Not according to Microsoft, which insists the Information Rights Management function of Office 2003 will not result in emails and other documents vanishing into thin air.

Weathering the data storm

How the Bureau of Meteorology manage their mountains of information and their costs at the same time.

Special feature: email management services guide

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