Information governance has long resided in the background of many consulting firms: retention schedules, file plans, and access rules managed by risk, IT, and records teams while partners focus on winning work and serving clients. It shows up as something you are expected to “have in place” rather than something that actively shapes deal strategy, AI roadmaps, or integration plans. The working assumption is familiar: smart consultants, reputable platforms, and generic firmwide policies will...

ISO 27001 is widely recognized as the gold standard for information security management, giving organizations a structured way to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of their data. ISO 42001 does something similar for artificial intelligence: it provides a formal management system for how AI is designed, built, deployed, monitored, and improved. Layered on top of these, the EU AI Act and emerging U.S. AI rules push organizations to treat AI not as a series of experimental...

The federal government’s gradual shift—accelerated in 2022—toward using commercial records storage centers has opened up a rare moment of opportunity for the industry. Agencies that once relied on government-operated facilities are now looking outward, and they’re asking far more sophisticated questions about compliance than ever before. For commercial records centers, this shift is significant, because it brings NARA standards and federal expectations directly into everyday operations. And...