A new study of corporations’ records management programs paints a troubling picture of companies still struggling to keep pace with the huge compliance demands piling onto them, despite the strides made in the last several years.
The study, the 2009 Iron Mountain Compliance Benchmark Report, surveyed more than 2,500 enterprises in the public, private, government, and non-profit sectors and compared the data to Iron Mountain’s last benchmark report from 2007. The bottom line: Companies have not shown much improvement in compliance over time, says Maribeth Ross, senior marketing program manager, compliant records management, for Iron Mountain.
One bit of good news is ...