Robert Hillard

Robert Hillard

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Robert Hillard is the author of Information-Driven Business (Wiley 2010, www.infodrivenbusiness.com) and was an original founder of MIKE2.0 (www.openmethodology.org) which provides a standard approach for Information and Data Management projects. He has held international consulting leadership roles and provided advice to government and private sector clients around the world. He is a Partner with Deloitte in Australia with more than twenty years experience in the discipline, focusing on standardised approaches to Information Management including being one of the first to use XBRL in government regulation and the promotion of information as a business asset rather than a technology problem.

Latest Blog Entries

The future of social networks

When the telephone was invented the first networks were private, typically between rich individuals and their industrial interests.  Pretty quickly, though, people wanted to be able to talk to each... read more

The “four layer” model applied to unstructured content

In my book, Information-Driven Business, I introduce a four layer model for information.  You can also read more about this model in the MIKE2.0 article: Four Layers of Information. The four la... read more

Can we make the Information Revolution better for society?

It is easy to assume that access to massive amounts of information is good for society.  Perhaps we should also look at the role the move to an Information Economy is having on the reversal of gene... read more

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