The impact of information management on corporate cultures

I'm delighted to have been invited once again to an Aslib conference to share with you some views on the subject of information management. The Association's selection of the theme ‘The Adaptive Information Manager’ this year is particularly timely because it seems to me that we are at a juncture in the introduction of information management into organisations where there is neither so much a problem of philosophical acceptance of the idea, nor of methodological implementation alternatives (not that those concerns are unimportant), as there is the question of the impact of such a major management reform on the ability of enterprises to adapt and assimilate. In short the crucial issue is how resilient the company, or other kind of organisation is to the kaleidoscopic variety of impacts and changes.