Search Is Lost Without Found by Marc Solomon Knowledge Engineer for Avid Technology

I went to Information Today's Enterprise Search Summit last week in New York City. This year's edition featured a buzz-rattling shout-out to Big Data. Big D sat on the sidelines despite the exce... read more

Breaking through the Coasean Floor by Christian Buckley Director of Product Evangelism for Axceler

In James Q. Wilson's 1989 book Bureaucracy, Wilson repeatedly mentions Ronald Coase and his 1937 paper 'The Nature of the Firm' regarding the value of the hierarchical organization, in whic... read more

On Why I No Longer Support the DoD 5015.2 Standard by Don Lueders, CRM, CDIA Owner for HarborPoint Information Management

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Very few people outside of the Department of Defense have more firsthand experience with the DoD 5015.2 Electronic Records Management Software Applications Design Criteria Standard than I do.  I... read more

Adding ECM to Accounts Payable Processes: An Introduction by Richard Medina Co-Founder and Principal Consultant for Doculabs Inc.

This post provides a crisp overview of ECM for AP processes and offers some advice about your AP roadmap. I often use Accounts Payable (AP) processes as a measuring stick to see how ECM will... read more

Outlining Your Enterprise Social Collaboration Strategy by Christian Buckley Director of Product Evangelism for Axceler

  People prefer lists over lengthy manuals. You advise them that rolling out any technology should be a carefully planned exercise involving stakeholder discussions, testing, and clear align... read more

Just Because Something Is Not An Enterprise Information Asset Does Not Stop It From Being A Liability by Jeffrey Lewis Records Analyst for Zimmerman Associates Incorporated

I recently blogged about how information governance has the role of reducing risk of indictment.  One of the questions I have been pondering lately is to what extent should those in information ... read more

Principles of Holistic Information Governance - The Presentation by Chris Walker Business Development Manager for OpenText

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What a Difference Forever Makes by Daniel Antion Vice President of Information Services for American Nuclear Insurers

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When we talk about retention periods with respect to ECM and ERM, we are usually focused on process. “How do we establish the period?” “What happens at the end of the period?” “Can we establish ... read more

Social collaboration software: helping make the world smaller by Angela Ashenden Principal Analyst, Collaboration for MWD Advisors

Using technology to support collaboration in business is far from a new idea – the reason email is so well-entrenched, for example, is that we’ve been using it for decades. However, historically... read more

Why All RIM Professionals Should Obtain The CIP by Jeffrey Lewis Records Analyst for Zimmerman Associates Incorporated

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I am big advocate of the Information Governance Reference Model.  In the IGRM it outlines four key players and they are RIM, legal, IT and business.  As I have been studying the IGRM it has rece... read more