Information as an Asset: 9 Essential Steps from AIIM Join us on Thursday, September 26 at 1 EDT for a tweetchat about how to value information (and content)
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Making the discovery of relevant content easier and more efficient is one of the potential business benefits of Enterprise 2.0 systems. It's good for the company if employees can more quickly find and consume the content they need. And social computing technologies present us with the...
But we have very little in the way of document control metrics, system value metrics, or “added value during document revision” metrics. Without these objective criteria to judge contributions of information processing or knowledge worker activities, how can we know that we are adding value to our work streams?
It's time to determine the value of each piece of information and know where that value lies. Without going into detail on the discussion of assessing the value of information, it is probably worth reminding the "taxonomy" of the concept of information value. First there is the "business value" . It represents the relevance of information and its added value in business processes (marketing, sales, finance, HR, etc. ..)
Most people, when defending the stuff they have kept will offer up an answer that basically says “ this stuff is, might be or could be valuable .” If it has value, it should be managed. It should be managed so that the people, for whom it has value, know how to find it
Unless organizations go through the effort to understand the types of information inside their organization and the relative value of that information, either operationally or legally, they will always be in a risk position. There is a great AIIM tutorial webinar (for AIIM members) that provides an overview of the challenges and guidance on the value of a good information governance program. In that tutorial (as well as in plenty of other helpful articles and research) is the requirement to understand what data is used by an organization and assigning a value to it; value in terms of risk, intellectual property, operational, or other types of value
Join Dan Antion on April 2 at 2 in Orlando for AIIM 2014 as he talks about how content management should find and emphasize the value in business documents
Content management should find and emphasize the value in those documents, and find ways to exploit that value in order to improve business processes
If information is no accessible, it has limited value and capture help increase the value of information that is shared
Here are some details and a link to register: Content in Context: Why Dynamic Content and Content Choreography Is Critical to Information Management September 15 - Developing a Dynamic Content Management Strategy September 22 - Content Choreography, IA & Search September 29 - Dynamic Content Processes and Information Management Governance October 13 - Getting More Value from SharePoint Content - The Role of Taxonomy and Information Architecture Register (it is free) Hope to see you there!
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