InfoGov Expectations Can Be Problematic
There is very little doubt that infogov technology can do all sorts of amazing things: it can help us find ...
Perspective Check: InfoGov Short Cuts
Sorry, kids, but there just aren’t any more short-cuts to good information governance than there are in serious mountaineering. The ...
Management by Magazine (InfoGov Edition)
Today, on Perpective Check: The truth and consequences of your boss flipping through the pages of a magazine and saying, ...
Speaking of: Blockchain (with Alan Pelz-Sharpe)
If a picture is worth 1000 words, then what’s a 15-minute video worth? Tons, especially when the subject is blockchain, ...
Bitcoin ≠ Blockchain
Seems like not an hour goes by that I don’t see a headline about the soaring value of bitcoin – ...
The Time is ‘Before’ to Cope with Hurricane-Related Storms of Forms
Even though the physical storms are now largely scary, soggy memories, hurricanes Harvey and Irma will swamp many information professionals ...
Is Your Information Governance Mostly Sound and Fury?
“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Shakespeare penned these words as ...
5 Steps to Information Governance Success
To hear some people tell it, the future of information governance is a complex, frightening place to ponder. The volume ...
If It Ain’t Broke, Fix it Anyway
When speaking of technology and information governance, we often are told that “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” – ...
Governance is Always Never Having to Say You’re Sorry
There’s a disturbing trend in the information governance profession that needs to stop now, namely the tendency to apologize for ...
Reimagining Information Governance with Blockchain
A Discussion Paper Authors: Alan Pelz-Sharpe (Deep Analysis) & Steve Weissman (Holly Group) Statement of Purpose This discussion paper provides ...
Records Disrupted: Blockchain as a Transformative Force
Authors: Alan Pelz-Sharpe (Deep Analysis) & Steve Weissman (Holly Group) If records and content management issues such as security, privacy, ...
View From AIIM17: New Blood or Fresh Meat?
Like so many others, I have lots of nice things to say about last week’s AIIM17 conference in Orlando, FL ...
Stuck in the Middle (of Information Management) With You
If you’re reading this, you already know how valuable it can be to better manage your organization’s business-critical information, and ...
Debate Over “Content Services vs. ECM” Misses the Point
“ECM is dead.” “Content Services are the next generation.” “I’ve got a brand-new pair of roller skates.” If you think ...
OpenText / Documentum Deal Closes. What Do I Do?
OK, it’s official: OpenText has closed its deal with Dell EMC to buy the latter’s Enterprise Content Division, which includes ...
Information Management: It’s Safe to Go in the Water
“Overwhelming” “Complicated” “Scary” Quotes from a movie poster? A book jacket? A Congressional hearing? No, merely a summary of my ...
Cloud, IoT Can be Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing
It happens innocently enough: someone obtains and installs a reasonable Internet-enabled capability, and BANG! You’re open for business that’s not ...
Overcoming IG-Related Post-Election Stress Disorder
Can’t sleep. Can’t sit still. Can’t concentrate. No doubt about it, I have Post-Election Stress Disorder (PESD).
- I worry ...
They’re Just Tools
Spare us the anthropomorphism – infogov solutions are just tools. They’re neither good nor bad, transformative nor ordinary, effective nor ...
Information Quality: One Goal, Two Meanings
England and America are two countries separated by the same language. – George Bernard Shaw In the same way, businesspeople ...
Whose Credibility is it Anyway?
Conference-goer to fellow attendee at the coffee station: “Hi, I’m [name]. Nice to meet you!” Fellow attendee in ...
Who Cares?
Spent an amazing two hours yesterday as a panelist on The Knowledge Group’s webcast The Continuously Evolving Landscape of Information ...
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
It may sound like a question for a beauty pageant contestant, but it’s an important one for anyone with information ...
Fax & InfoGov: An Older Medium at Large
Went back to the bank yesterday to complete the estate-related account-opening tasks before me, and couldn’t believe the gal helping ...
Dot’s Ridiculous
Spent more time today wrangling with my parent’s estate stuff only to hit a snag that’s right up our infogov ...
Diversity in InfoGov
Just back from the excellent Information Governance Conference last week and was struck not only by the high-quality of the ...