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Compliance and Records Management: Less than a Quarter of Companies Follow Through on Data Retention Policies

By Dick Weisinger

Most companies understand the fundamentals of Compliance and Records Management.  As many as 98 percent of large Fortune 1000 companies say that they understand the importance of the notion of record retention and destruction.  The problem is though that companies

Compliance: Has it Been Worth it?

By Dick Weisinger

Sarbanes Oxley.  It’s eight years since it has been on the books.  Small companies have tried their hardest to avoid having to comply with it.   Many large companies have questioned whether it was worth it.  And foreign companies have

Compliance: Eight Years of Sarbanes-Oxley

By Dick Weisinger

It’s been eight years now since the Senate merged their “Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act” with the House’s “Corporate and Auditing Accountability and Responsibility Act”.   The combined version is what we now know as the Sarbanes-Oxley

Sarbanes-Oxley: After Eight Years, Companies are Still Struggling

By Dick Weisinger

Sarbanes-Oxley has been with us nearly eight years now, but despite the time to implement a strategy, plus additional clarifications by the SEC around what really is required, companies still struggle with their compliance programs. About three-quarters of senior level

Compliance: Focus on Data Cleansing and Records Management

By Dick Weisinger

In 2010 many companies will be reviewing their data protection policies for data cleansing and record keeping.  Companies have focused in previous years primarily on making their data secure, but once good security processes are in place, many will now