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Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

The 3 Disrupters That Are Driving the Era of InfoChaos

In my previous post -- Welcome to the Era of InfoChaos: How Will Your Organization Adjust? -- I discussed the colliding forces of Information Opportunity and Information Chaos. In this post, I want to discuss how we wound up in this strange place of incredible opportunity and risk.

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Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

Welcome to the Era of InfoChaos – How Will Your Organization Adjust?

The game has changed. Information is the world’s new currency. Read just about any business publication, and you will quickly conclude that how an organization manages its information assets is now just as fundamental a source of competitive differentiation as to how it manages its physical assets, its human assets, and its financial assets.

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14 Steps to a Successful ECM Implementation

Making an ECM implementation successful requires planning and attention to detail. The best way to create the right solution is to identify organizational goals and priorities. Learn how to manage a successful implementation in our free guide.

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Information Governance  |  Sharepoint and Office 365

8 Governance and SharePoint Blog Posts Worth Reading

Automation Should Get The Job Done And Be Defensible In Court by Jim Merrifield, Director of Information Governance for FileTrail, Inc. When is automation going to deliver the promises we have heard for years? Automation is software that automatically classifies records, starts the review cycle automatically, notifies re... read more How to Sell InfoGov to C-Level Executives by Jim Merrifield, Director of Information Governance for FileTrail, Inc. I attended three ARMA meetings last week and guess what topic all of them focused on? You guessed it, Information Governance. It is the hottest topic in the records management space today. If yo... read more Demonstrating the Business Value of Social Collaboration by Christian Buckley, Director of Product Evangelism for Metalogix Measurement of social sucks. And I'm saying this without having a clear picture of what needs to happen for it to be fixed. But treating internal social collaboration like your externa... read more

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Privacy

Do You Know Where Your Data Is? Data Privacy Day Is a Good Time to Start Thinking about Personal InfoChaos

Yesterday was Data Privacy Day. It is hard to say when tipping points occur, but the combination of the NSA revelations and the sophistication of the recent Target thefts have me thinking a lot more about this issue than I did as recently as 12 months ago.

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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)  |  Sharepoint and Office 365

Book Review: Enterprise Content Management with Microsoft SharePoint

I recently received a review copy of a great new resource by two AIIM "veterans," Shad White and Chris Riley, called Enterprise Content Management with Microsoft SharePoint. If you are involved in a SharePoint implementation at your organization -- or if you are an SI in the SharePoint space -- you need this book.

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Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

15 Great How-to Guides and Checklists to Help You Survive InfoChaos

Information (documents, emails, videos, podcasts, voicemails, texts, tweets, Facebook posts, LinkedIn conversations, customer analytics, etc.) surrounds us. We rely on this information for entertainment and to do our jobs. Access by employees to information and manipulation by companies of their customer information to serve customer needs is THE competitive advantage today. Better information equals better results. The problem? That information is everywhere and not always managed effectively. By managed we mean channeled towards some business outcome. We use the phrase “Information Chaos” to describe this ongoing and accelerating state of massive information disruption. Take back control and tame your Information Chaos with this round-up of the best free content on Intelligent Information Management. Enjoy! 1. Build an Effective Social Business Strategy in 8 Steps Can you share information without compromising security or control? All it takes is one rogue Twitter or Facebook post to deliver a significant blow to your brand image. While you can’t be cavalier about who says what in your organization’s name, neither can you lock down access to social media outlets. So what's the solution? Establish a social media policy to proactively guide your employees on leveraging social business while protecting your organization. DOWNLOAD

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