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10 Fresh Thoughts re AI & Records/Information Governance

Are you tired of the hype surrounding AI? Do you wish someone would just cut to the chase and say ...
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Why Governance Must Be Part of Your AI Budget

Organizations today are rushing to explore and deploy AI applications; perhaps yours is among them? If so, it’s critical not ...
Delays

Migration Prep Case in Point: Newark Airport’s Shoulda, Coulda

One of my greatest frustrations as a governance consultant is clients’ insistence that they’ll worry about preparing their information for ...
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Good Governance is an Art

Establishing and maintaining good data and information governance is a lot more art than science. While there is a science ...

Going to InfoNEXT? ARMA Has a Deal for You

If you’re keeping score at home, you may remember that I’m speaking at InfoNEXT 2025 in a couple of weeks ...
True Stories in Information Governance: A Privacy Swing and Miss

True Stories in Information Governance: A Privacy Swing and Miss

Once upon a time, I had a client who asked me to help them bolster their practices regarding personally-identifiable information ...
Savvy Solutions for Selecting a Solution

NEW Community Roundtable! ‘Savvy Strategies for Selecting a Solution.’ March 19, 1pm ET

Announcing our next FREE InfoGov Community Roundtable! Coming Wed, March 19 at 1pm ET, on the subject of "Savvy Strategies ...
Governance is About Risks and Opportunities

Good Governance is About Risks AND Opportunities

The previous installment of this series left off with the call to continually ask “why” when engaging in your governance ...
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Announcing My Spring 2025 ARMA National Tour!

I’m very happy to invite you to my Spring 2025 ARMA National Tour! So far, it includes these dates and ...
Governance is All About the "Why"

Good Governance is About the “Why”

I get inquiries all the time from people seeking support as they ready to tackle what sound like fairly specific ...
Governance: Turning Information Into Outcomes

Turning Information Into Outcomes: What Governance Really is About

For years, you’ve heard me exhort you to implement information governance because “you collected all that information for a reason, ...

Movie From 1983 Had AI and InfoGov Right

Who here has seen the 1983 movie “WarGames”? In it, a high school teenager seeking the newest, hottest prerelease videogame ...
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Thanks to AI, GIGO is More Relevant Than Ever

The adage "garbage in, garbage out" (GIGO) has been around for nearly 70 years, and it's never been more relevant ...

True Stories in InfoGov: Being “Good Cop” Isn’t Enough

A client came to me for help changing his company’s culture regarding information governance. “I’m trying to make it as ...
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My Experience is Your Best Teacher

Julius Caesar had it right when he observed that “experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the ...
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True Stories in InfoGov: Paper, Paper Everywhere

Someone came to me once and said “We’ve got boxes of paper records all over the place – in the ...
Personal For You

Make it Personal When People Slow Your InfoGov Roll

You know as well as I that people-related issues – not those related to technology – tend to be the ...
Ethics

Wanted! An IG Code of Human Ethics

I recently gave a presentation to ARMA International about the human consequences of what we do, and though you probably ...
Piggy Bank

A Business Case Tip for InfoGov

Making the business case for Doing Information Right™ is often one of the biggest challenges we face, in no small ...
You Do You

Want to Succeed with AI? Just Keep Doing You

You know as well as I just how much hype there is surrounding the perils and potential of AI. However, ...
Umpire Decision

No Decision IS a Decision in Information Governance

My work keeps me in touch with a lot of organizations, some already Doing Information Right™ but many more that ...
pushback

How to Push Back Against Infogov Push-Back

We’ve all been there –
  • You know what you want to do to fix your information quality and process ...
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Public AI: Bad. Internal AI: Good. With Information Governance: Great!

We’ve talked a lot about the perils of using generative AI, which while improving is still prone to making stuff ...
AI

Topic Be Damned! AI is the Question

OK, I give up. It seems that no matter what I get asked to talk about – privacy, information-related risks, ...
low-hanging fruit

Shared Drives & Email as Low-Hanging InfoGov Fruit

If you know – or have been told – you have to do SOMETHING to get a grip on your ...
Speaking of Title Slide

IG Needs a Makeover (or, It’s Just Mayonnaise)

Q: “Aioli? What’s aioli?” A: “It’s just mayonnaise.” Q: “What’s information governance?” A: That’s the topic of today’s edition of ...
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AI Won’t Take Your Job – Even if You Want it To

“The more we automated, the more time we had to add other value. The kind only a human can provide.” ...
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