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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)  |  Information Security  |  Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

8 Ways Your Organization Can Improve Efficiency, Increase Productivity, and Reduce Risk

Why You Need an Information Strategy For many years, organizations have survived by "winging it" when it comes to information management.

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Information Governance  |  Intelligent Information Management (IIM)  |  Sharepoint and Office 365

8 Reasons You Need a Strategy for Managing Information (Before It’s Too Late)

A tidal wave of information. A study by IDC a few years back concluded that there are currently 281 billion exabytes of information in the Digital Universe. So how much is this? Well…an exabyte is a million million megabytes. Thanks a lot. To put it in a bit of perspective, a small novel contains about a megabyte of information. So, in other words, the Digital Universe is equal to 12 stacks of novels (fewer if the chosen novel is a big fat one like Harry Potter 6 or one of those Ken Follett Pillars of the Earth deals) stretching from the earth to the sun. So it’s a big number, whatever it is. But I think the way to think about this is to note that IDC concludes that 30% of this information is business-related. And it concludes that the overall quantity of information will grow by a factor of 10 between 2006 and 2011. The point here is that it is not unrealistic to think that your employees – who currently say they are overwhelmed by the volume of information they must manage and who currently say they spend hours each day just dealing with email – will need to manage 10X as much information in the near future.

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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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Intelligent Information Management (IIM)

8 Things You Need to Know to Manage the Explosion of Information

The explosion of information is making way for a new strategy to align business policies with people and technology. The following steps are my take on ways in which organizations can be successful in creating and implementing intelligent information management practices in this challenging environment.

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