Information Governance
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Information Governance Repeating the Same Mistakes
One thing I’ve been doing a lot of recently is observing the rise of Information Governance. It is eating all the bandwidth that Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Information Management, and Records Management have historically consumed. All the same players are involved; each trying to make a name for themselves. As I participated in today’s #InfoChat,… Continue reading
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Information Governance is a Journey
I’ve been talking a lot about Information Governance of late. The reason I’ve been doing it is because if it simply becomes a term used in place of Records Management we will have wasted an opportunity. Information Governance is different. It needs to be different. Records Management failed. We need a new approach. Information Governance… Continue reading
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Content Management Step 5, Dispose of that Information
Welcome to weird, mystical world where we are now permitted to get rid of expired information. I phrase it like that because we live in a world where we are permitted to dispose of information, but never automatically. How many hours are lost reviewing information in order to determine if it is okay to remove?… Continue reading
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Content Management Step 4, Protect that Information
Protecting our information is, in many ways, the trickiest concept in making Information Governance profitable. To many people, it is the same as controlling information. After all, how can you protect information if you don’t control it first? I have a better question. How can you protect information if you don’t capture and organize it?… Continue reading
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Content Management Step 3, Control that Information
At this point, I’ve covered the first two Content Management steps towards achieving the proper Information Governance, knowing. The remaining steps are ones that the industry executes fairly well today, at least from a technical perspective. It just feels like a failure because we historically fail to Capture and Organize content properly. The third step… Continue reading
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Making Information Governance Pay
In May, I will be speaking on a panel on The Economics of a Successful ILG Program at the Document Strategy Forum in Connecticut. When Joe Shepley first asked me to speak, I was a little hesitant. Explaining how a successful Information Governance program contributes to the bottom line has been one of the greatest… Continue reading
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Making Records Management Simple at ARMA
Next week I will be at the ARMA Conference in Vegas. While I will be there in support of Alfresco, I have a secondary purpose. I want to brainstorm with attendees on how we can make Records Management (RM) simple. The reason is straightforward. Adoption of RM systems by end-users is horrible. We have spent… Continue reading
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The CIO, CTO, and Managing 21st Century Assets
There I was, strolling into Ted Friedman’s Gartner Symposium talk on Information Governance with low expectations. Ted is smart, but Information Governance is old territory for me. If it was anyone but Ted, I would have spent the time researching or writing. So glad it was Ted. So glad I attended. It wasn’t any particular… Continue reading