Old habits die hard....
This issue of document control is one of those I always used in Executive Management Overviews about ISO 9001. The importance of senior management being involved, engaged and participating in the ISO 9001 implementation phases.
Some of us know that ISO 9001 implementation will affect (sometimes significantly) how business processes are structured and how critical it is for business process (re)engineering to be kept in check for efficiency purposes. Document control in ISO-ese is translated as information dissemination in business lingo.
I have seen (more than once) misguided document control process owners intentionally creating monstrous, resource-intensive doc. control process, just in order to justify their overly inflated department and budget. Stamping (in each page!:mg
A clear example of how costly ignorance can be. And the subsequent misperception that ISO 9001 made us so bureaucratic, slower and added costs to our operation.