Records Management
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The CIP, A Lost Opportunity
[EDIT: 1 week after killing it, AIIM restored the CIP after the community’s feelings about the CIP became known. Read my initial thoughts.] For those that may not have heard, AIIM is killing off the Certified Information Professional (CIP) certification. We’d like to share an exciting development with you. To categorize the news as disappointing… Continue reading
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Stop Talking about Backups Tapes!!!
This isn’t a rant against backup tapes in IT infrastructure. This isn’t a rant about how backup strategies need to change. It is a rant about all the people that depend on backups for managing information. Stop it! Backup tapes are to restore your system when things go wrong. Period. If you have to keep… Continue reading
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Why Should We Get Out of Email?
Last week I had the privilege of having dinner with a brilliant gentleman from my college days, Alex. Some may know of Alex as he the person who is responsible for my moniker, “Pie.” We had a great conversation that was mostly devoid of ‘remember when’ threads. Alex is an independent lawyer in a city… Continue reading
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Box Just Threw Down the Gauntlet
Last week, Box held their annual conference. Many announcements were expected and the announcement of Workflow coming to Box in 2015 was quite exciting. If you want a high-level look at everything that happened, check out Chris Walker’s quick thoughts on BoxWorks. None of that is why I am writing this post. Buried in the… Continue reading
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Executing on Information Governance
I had the pleasure of attending the Information Governance Exchange in Washington, DC last week. It was a different conference from many that I have attended in the past. Attended by senior people that own Information Governance at their organizations, there were a lot of discussions about how to execute strategies to making Information Governance… Continue reading
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The Two Sides of Information Governance
Sometimes things just fall together. This past weekend, I watched Raiders of the Lost Ark with my sons, reveling as they experienced all the quirks for the first time. Then on Monday, I had a conversation about Information Governance with a fellow practitioner. They remarked that there were two pillars of Information Governance. At first… Continue reading
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The IGI Tackles Information Governance for All
The Information Governance Initiative (IGI) released their 2014 Annual Report this week. I was actually sent a preview copy, but I was at the beach and it took me a while to get to reading the entire report. I could have readily written a simple write-up based upon the great executive summary, but I wanted… Continue reading
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Joining the Practitioners at the Information Governance Conference
Last week I talked about my upcoming visit to the Information Governance Exchange, which is an event filled with business owners and decision makers. The next week in September, the 8th through the 10th, I will be winging my way up to Hartford, CT for the Information Governance Conference (InfoGovCon). The InfoGovCon will be filled… Continue reading
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Information Governance and Records Management Need to get Radical Together
A couple weeks ago I ranted that we were beginning to make many of the same mistakes with Information Governance that we had made with Enterprise Content Management (ECM), and to some extent Records Management. The post stimulated posts from James Lappin and George Parapadakis. I respect both of them and it is entertaining to… Continue reading
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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