
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 ...
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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, ...
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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, ...
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Bitcoin ≠ Blockchain
Seems like not an hour goes by that I don’t see a headline about the soaring value of bitcoin – ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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” – ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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They’re Just Tools
Spare us the anthropomorphism – infogov solutions are just tools. They’re neither good nor bad, transformative nor ordinary, effective nor ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Who Cares?
Spent an amazing two hours yesterday as a panelist on The Knowledge Group’s webcast The Continuously Evolving Landscape of Information ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Diversity in InfoGov
Just back from the excellent Information Governance Conference last week and was struck not only by the high-quality of the ...
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Rock, Paper, Scissors – IG Style
In the world of information governance: People … defeat Policies Policies … defeat Litigation Litigation … defeats People And you ...
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