Picking Up the Slack™ Legal and Information Governance Considerations For New(ER) Technologies

By their nature, disruptive technologies, or those technologies that introduce change and upset the status quo, modify the way we work. But contrary to popular opinion, organizations that ignore these technologies do not miss out on the potential benefits they may bring because this is an age when employees will embrace these technologies if they help get the job done, regardless of institutional permission or approval.1 Even acknowledging this still raises a host of new challenges, such as how to wrangle these technologies into existing specifications, like regulatory record requirements or existing contractual obligations, or how to deal with exceptions to normal business practices.