It happens innocently enough: someone obtains and installs a reasonable Internet-enabled capability, and BANG! You’re open for business that’s not of your choosing. Maybe it’s a shared corporate meeting calendar, or a construction pipe-weld inspection robot, or a security camera at a remote power plant. But whatever it is – be it a cloud-based offering […]
Can’t sleep. Can’t sit still. Can’t concentrate. No doubt about it, I have Post-Election Stress Disorder (PESD). I worry what any new policies will mean for my clients, especially those in highly-regulated industries (e.g., utilities). I worry their concerns about the economy will lead to short-sighted decisions regarding long-term programs (like information governance). I […]
Spare us the anthropomorphism – infogov solutions are just tools. They’re neither good nor bad, transformative nor ordinary, effective nor ineffective. They simply are what they are. We, on the other hand, project our own expectations and perspectives upon them and characterize them accordingly, even when we don’t prepare ourselves properly for their use. A […]
England and America are two countries separated by the same language. – George Bernard Shaw In the same way, businesspeople and IT folk often are separated by a single phrase: “information quality.” Both cite it as a prime information governance objective, but when you get right down to it, they don’t always use it to […]