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line authority. is independent executive sponsor precept is another information management
best practice.
4.8 Performance Accountability
To digress a bit, those committed companies that aggressively pursue an IWS typically take the
position that every employee should understand their “contribution to prot” within the
organization. Given that the concept of a workmanship standard functions as the means to
assess individual performance toward attainment of protability, the IWS serves as its integral
component. With protability as a baseline, and using information as a competitive weapon in the
mark