A new survey says that only 7 percent of senior executives and board directors consider records management a top issue for their company—compared to a whopping 40 percent of law departments on the front lines of litigation and growing demands for speed access to relevant electronic data.
The study, the Chief Legal Officer 2008 Strategic Planning Survey by consulting firm Lexakos, validates a growing suspicion among records management experts that too many executives still don’t understand the rapidly proliferating collection of data their companies are amassing and the attendant legal risks.
