... and of itself. The advantages to using outside experts are their objectivity, time and availability, the knowledge they bring from other organizations for comparison purposes, and the credibility ... years as a method for examining information flow, or the channels and relationships through which information is exchanged. It asks individuals who they communicate and for what purpose. It ... briefly below in the context of a communications audit and then followed by a table that compares them on time, cost, and information yield.4 Note that while the use of one or more of these methods...