I want to make the world safe for records management...They move beyond managing records as valuable in their own right to governing information as a true asset of their organization
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How do you engage business users and help them understand the value of records management?
For as much as good RIM is about retaining information to meet compliance obligations, to facilitate productivity and to generate competitive advantage, it’s also about disposing of records, non-records and other transitory bits and bytes in a timely manner to reduce risk, free up storage space and keep people from having to trip over it on their search for information of value
Did you ever stop to consider just how many interconnected moving parts there are in the typical content and information management strategy? Client councils, vendor briefings, and association business in just the past few days have dragged yours truly up and down the spectrum of technology and management challenges and dramatically illustrated just how important it is to consider them all when embarking down the planning path
What causes one project to leap ahead of 10 or 20 others? Well, it might be an executive sponsor
1 Comment - Nice job of framing the issue in a context that we all can relate to!
Thanks to the discussions the post generated on Linkedin and on this blog I realised I was approaching the issue from the wrong angle. Doug Laney (of Gartner & the Center for Infonomics ) and Juerg Hagmann (of itopia ) get special mentions for really steering me in the right direction. Let me start by saying that I completely disavow whatever it was I said in the closing paragraph of my previous post on this topic. The mistake I made was that I was looking at the issue from an Information Management point of view
2 Comments - There's a great deal of research and writing on this topic - although research has gone out of fashion somewhat in recent years. The main framework for thinking about the issue has been the concepts of exchange value and value in use and the research has decline because of the difficulty in determining value in use
It started on Laurence Hart’s great Word of Pie blog when he pronounced ECM as having died or almost died and been reincarnated or perhaps it is awaiting reincarnation as a series of services
Given that what we’re really doing is communicating, something we’ve been doing since the dawn of time, why is it so difficult to build effective accountability into our information and communication management practices?
It’s now about a year since AIIM first introduced their study “Systems of Engagement and the future if Enterprise IT” (led by Geoffrey Moore). While the concept resonates well with customers, I have some fundamental issues with some of the specific messaging
Bryant managed to wrangle up a bunch of us to discuss the value of information; you can read the unedited wrap up here
3 Comments - Many business do place a value on some of their information. The information that is used to gain and protect a patent/trademark has a monetary value of the protected 'product'
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