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The Future of Social Networks

October 24, 2011 by MIKE20 Governance Association
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When the telephone was invented the first networks were private, typically between rich individuals and their industrial interests.  Pretty quickly, though, people wanted to be able to talk to each other without the need to worry about multiple networks and, of course, we regard this as a basic requirement of any telephony solution... [read more]

Information Governance In Practice

March 21, 2011 by Steve Bennett
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Governance of an organisation's information assets is an area where you see a wide variety of practises. There are many organisational models used and even more consulting companies advocating 'proprietry' solutions. I have created successful IM capabilites in a number of organisations and I want to share with you one way I know... [read more]

Actionable Information Management Principles: The Reality

October 9, 2010 by Steve Bennett
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A couple of months ago I wrote about IM principles relating to people and process. I had intended also writing about principles relating to technology and content but then I hit a wall. This wall was that the principles were too detailed for the people I needed to communicate with: namely the business community. If I continued with the... [read more]

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Supply Chain Traceability - What's in Your T-Shirt?

October 1, 2010 by Paul Barsch
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Does it concern you that cotton from a t-shirt originated in Uzbekistan? You might care if reports are true that cotton harvested from this country came from forced or child labor. In fact, consumers are increasingly asking manufacturers and retailers to ensure goods and services are produced with sustainable and ethical business... [read more]

Leveraging today’s cloud data management technology and tools

July 9, 2010 by Rick Sherman
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You can now listen to my latest podcast, Leveraging today’s cloud data management technology and tools.The abstract:Cloud databases are widely available, and data integration and data quality vendors are beginning to offer cloud-based versions of their tools. The big questions: are IT departments ready for cloud data management, and can... [read more]

Actionable Information Management Principles: Process

July 6, 2010 by Steve Bennett
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In my last post on Actionable Information Management Principles: People, I presented my principles and actions related to people. There are 5 principles related to people:  Principle #1 – Information Is An Asset Principle #2 – Information is Shared Principle #3 – Information Must Be Available Principle #4 – Fact-based... [read more]

How to Gain Knowledge from the Online Community

June 29, 2010 by MIKE20 Governance Association
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As employees today have increasingly free reign to connect and share data online, the amount of untapped organizational knowledge grows in proportion.  The very nature of online communities allow us to create personas that enable us to say whatever we want, whenever we want, and to whomever we chose.  As our virtual... [read more]

Moving to the People-centric Enterprise

June 13, 2010 by Michael Fauscette
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The fun thing about trying to figure out what might happen next in software and business in general is the ability to evolve your thinking over time as you gain more data and more clarity. I suppose that's why IDC's tag line is "analyze the future", that's effectively what my job is, at least a large part of it. Sometimes the process is... [read more]

Analytics or Information Management?

June 11, 2010 by MIKE20 Governance Association
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It looks like 2010 will be the year of Analytics with advertising from most of the major players and tie-ups between IBM and SPSS as well as Accenture and SAS just to name a couple of high profile examples.  Read a little deeper though and the real business activity gets a whole lot more interesting. It’s true that most of the... [read more]

Mind the Gap: Cognitive Load

June 3, 2010 by Jim Harris
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Photo via Flickr (Creative Commons License) by: futureshape For many people, the phrase “mind the gap” conjures up images of a train platform, and perhaps most notably one used by the London Underground.  I’ll even admit to buying the T-shirt during my first business trip to England more than a decade ago. However, lately I have... [read more]

How solid is your information management system?

May 19, 2010 by MIKE20 Governance Association
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Solidity: (noun)  the state, property, or quality of being solid. having firmness and strength; substantialness. An enterprise’s information system is the primary pillar and support system for the majority of its business operations, intelligence and day-to-day transactions.   Depending on the... [read more]

Implementing Enterprise 2.0 at Océ, Part One: Business Drivers

April 28, 2010 by Jacob Morgan
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If you recall, I recently wrote an in-depth case study on how Vistaprint deployed Enterprise 2.0 initiatives within their organization.  Next up in the E2.0 case study series is Océ; a printing company with over 21,000 employees around the world.  I had the opportunity to speak with Samuel Driessen- Information Architect and... [read more]

MongoDB 30,000 downloads a month?

April 26, 2010 by Tony Bain
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Image by Cesar Rodas via Flickr While I have written about NoSQL generating a lot of buzz recently I have also written that when compared with the activity that is occurring day in, day out on relational databases it is very minor.  I would suggest those working with NoSQL databases are still a fraction of a percent of those... [read more]

The Battle of Britain: Thought Leadership in Information Management

March 16, 2010 by Teradata AusNZ
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In the London Blitz of 1940, Great Britain was staring down defeat and an imminent German invasion. With cities, industry and dockyards experiencing nightly destruction, Great Britain needed to out-think Germany. They did this through understanding the value of key indicators and command and control; I'll explain how. The evacuation at... [read more]