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The Three Faces of Information
Governance:
Context, Reality, and Opportunity
Jesse Wilkins, CIP, CRM, IGP
Director, Research & Development
AIIM
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Agenda
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Agenda
The importance of achieving governance
Your role in convincing the organization to move forward
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1 – Context
Most conversations about
Information Governance begin
with
“What do we need to keep
and for how long?”
This is because Governance has
traditionally been defined in terms
of our PAPER legacy.
The explosion in the
volume, variety, and
velocity of digital
information means we
need to start the
conversation differently…
“How can we safely and
responsibly get rid of
excess information
before we are buried
beneath our
DIGITAL LANDFILLS?”
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Is/Current Will Be/Future
IT focused on cost reduction. IT focused on value creation.
Senior Execs tech oblivious. Senior Execs tech aware.
Complexity guarantees security. Simplicity guarantees security.
Mobile & social differentiators. Mobile & social are features.
Systems bought with CAPEX. Systems bought with OPEX.
Pure tech skills = value. Tech skills in context = value.
A Migration is in Motion…
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1 – Context
2 – Reality
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Progress toward the “Paperless
Office” is slow.
For 42% of organizations, the volume of
paper records is still increasing.
Source: AIIM Industry Watch
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The Gaps in Governance
87% of organizations claim to have a mature RIM
program
 74% say lifecycle controls are efficient
 77% cite internal audit alignment
Yet, only….
 8% use metrics to “inspect what they expect”
 17% conduct RIM compliance audits
Senior management is hiding from
the risks.
31% of respondents report that poor
electronic records-keeping is causing
problems with regulators and auditors.
14% are incurring fines or bad publicity.
Source: AIIM Industry Watch
Something has to be done
about content
accumulation.
For 29% the response to the
information deluge is “buy more
discs.”
Source: AIIM Industry Watch
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The content may be electronic but
the e-discovery mechanisms are
still manual.
53% are still reliant on manual processes for e-
discovery searches across file shares, email
and physical records.
Source: AIIM Industry Watch
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IT is losing its ability to
transform business.
For a third of organizations, 90% of IT
spend adds no new value.
Source: AIIM Industry Watch
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Survey by Harvard Business Review, The Economist, Corporate Executive Board,
Intel, TNS Global
“57% of the executives expect
their IT function to change
significantly over the next three
years, and 12% predict a
complete overhaul of IT.”
“Almost half of CEOs rate their
CIOs negatively in terms of
understanding the business and
understanding how to apply IT in
new ways to the business.”
“Only a quarter of
executives feel their
CIO is performing above
his or her peers.”
“Almost half of CEOs
feel IT should be a
commodity service
purchased as needed.”
Source: “The IT Conversation We Should Be Having,” HBR Blogs
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1 – Context
2 – Reality
3 – Opportunity
Information Chaos
Systems of Engagement
and Record misaligned.
Mobile means information
leaking everywhere.
Information coming faster
than it can be digested.
More silos than ever – and
new ones in the cloud
The “business” circumvents
IT.
We’re spending too much
on technology.
Information
Opportunity
End to end process
synchronization.
Governance occurs
regardless of device.
Analytics automatically
categorizes and disposes.
Governance occurs
regardless of location.
IT spend aligned with
opportunities.
Cloud opportunities to save
on legacy.
Business Benefit
Processes transparent to
customers.
Employees and customers
work on their own device.
Static information now at
rest put into motion.
It doesn’t matter where
information “lives.”
A new business/IT
alignment.
IT shifts from a cost center
to value creator.
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Agenda
The three faces of governance
The importance of achieving governance
Your role in convincing the organization to move forward
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It’s good for you.
It’s the right thing to do.
It will keep you out of
jail.
You should do it.
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Redefining Governance -- RISK
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0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
Excess litigation costs or damages resulting from…
Loss of customer confidence or bad publicity from…
Loss of intellectual property or company confidential…
Inability to respond to requests (Freedom of…
Infringement of industry-specific compliance…
Audit qualifications due to inadequate records
Regulator action from loss/exposure of personally…
Poor outcome of customer/supplier disputes due to…
Criminal prosecution for allowing personally sensitive…
Manage Information Risks Better
Which of the following do you consider to be the three biggest risks to your
company from a failure of information governance? (max THREE)
N=500
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Redefining Governance -- COST
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0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
Reduce storage and infrastructure costs
Exploit and share our knowledge resources
Faster response to events, accidents, press…
More personalized and accurate service to…
Better customer/supplier relationships
Support for potential big data initiatives
Better reputation/improved shareholder value
Faster and cheaper financial audits
Control social media for positive benefit
Reduce Information Costs
Which three of the following do you consider to be the biggest benefits to
your company from good information governance? (max THREE)
N=506
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Redefining Governance -- VALUE
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How much more productive do you
think the administrative staff in
your organization would be (or are)
if their processes were work-
flowed, using scanned forms and
documents, with automated data
capture?
33.5% more productive (average)
Maximize the Business Benefit - 1
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How much more productive do you
think professional staff in your
organization would be (or are) if they
could find internal information and
documents as quickly and as easily as
they find information on the web?
30.9% more productive (average)
Maximize the Business Benefit - 2
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How much would it improve (or have
you improved) the efficiency of your
office staff by giving them sufficient
remote or mobile access to company
information that they are able to
efficiently work from home or on-the-
road?
25.1% more efficient (average)
Maximize the Business Benefit - 3
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By how much do you think customer
service levels and response times could
be (or have been) improved if all of
your customer-facing staff could
immediately access and share all of
the customer related and case-related
information that you hold?
32.2% more responsive (average)
Maximize the Business Benefit - 4
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Agenda
The three faces of governance
The importance of achieving governance
Your role in convincing the organization to move forward
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You better start
swimming or you'll
sink like a stone, for
the times they are a-
changin’.
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Consumerization is transforming
what users expect from
applications and how we deliver
them.
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The Four Drivers of Consumerization
A programming
language and
SDK
A friction free
distribution
platform
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Cloud and mobile
are creating
an expectation of
anywhere,
anytime access.
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The future is flat and agile, not
hierarchical and slow.
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Understand that New Skills are Required
 WAS/IS…
• IT helps reduce costs.
• Senior Execs oblivious to technology.
• Complexity insures job security.
• IT is a railroad builder.
• Process standardization the objective.
• Most spending CAPEX.
• Mobile/social are differentiators.
• Pure technical skills valued.
 Most of the money is still here.
 WILL BE…
• IT helps reduce risk and create value.
• Senior Execs tech aware.
• Simplicity is the pre-eminent value.
• IT is a taxi company.
• Process agility the objective.
• Most spending OPEX.
• Mobile/social are a feature.
• Technical skills in context valued.
 Most of the money will soon be here.
New Integrated Skills for the Age of Social, Mobile, and Cloud
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The old world of centrally-controlled, one size
fits all, RIM control is dead.
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RIM needs to understand that they are now in
a different business. In the past, RIM was in
the…
1 -- Compliance business
2 -- Security business
3 -- Privacy business
4 -- Legal business
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These roles don’t go away, but in the new
world RIM’s core focus must be to…
Create a decision framework that analyzes the
risks and rewards of new technologies and
drives decisions with the framework rather
than based on the technologies themselves.
Connect the dots. In today’s social world, one
of RIM’s greatest callings is to help make sure
information is managed according to its value,
regardless of its format or location.
Think information logistics (with IT) and
information curation.
Drive business value. Good information
management practices directly benefit the
bottom line of the organization.
The reverse is also true.
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Aviation Charts - Before Aviation Charts - Now
Digitize Everything That Moves
Think patterns of work rather than focusing on
“records” or formats.
Streamline and automate.
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Build Bridges, Not Silos
 The vast majority of organizations see the need to manage
information as an enterprise resource rather than in separate
"silos," departments, or systems, but they don't know how to
begin to address the challenge, as it is so large...
 Professional roles focused on information management will be
different to that of established IT [and RIM] roles.
 An "information professional" will not be one type of role or
skill set, but will in fact have a number of specializations.
 Deb Logan and Regina Casonata, Gartner
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Jesse Wilkins, CIP, CRM, IGP
Director, Research & Development
AIIM
jwilkins@aim.org
@jessewilkins
The Three Faces of Information
Governance:
Context, Reality, and Opportunity

20140507 ARMA NoVA 3 Faces of Information Governance.pptx

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    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. #AIIM The Global Community of Information Professionals aiim.org The Three Faces of Information Governance: Context, Reality, and Opportunity Jesse Wilkins, CIP, CRM, IGP Director, Research & Development AIIM
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    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. 2 Agenda
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    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. 3 Agenda The importance of achieving governance Your role in convincing the organization to move forward
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    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. #AIIM The Global Community of Information Professionals aiim.org 1 – Context
  • 5.
    Most conversations about InformationGovernance begin with “What do we need to keep and for how long?” This is because Governance has traditionally been defined in terms of our PAPER legacy.
  • 6.
    The explosion inthe volume, variety, and velocity of digital information means we need to start the conversation differently… “How can we safely and responsibly get rid of excess information before we are buried beneath our DIGITAL LANDFILLS?”
  • 7.
    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. Is/Current Will Be/Future IT focused on cost reduction. IT focused on value creation. Senior Execs tech oblivious. Senior Execs tech aware. Complexity guarantees security. Simplicity guarantees security. Mobile & social differentiators. Mobile & social are features. Systems bought with CAPEX. Systems bought with OPEX. Pure tech skills = value. Tech skills in context = value. A Migration is in Motion…
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    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. #AIIM The Global Community of Information Professionals aiim.org 1 – Context 2 – Reality
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    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. 9 Progress toward the “Paperless Office” is slow. For 42% of organizations, the volume of paper records is still increasing. Source: AIIM Industry Watch
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    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. 10 The Gaps in Governance 87% of organizations claim to have a mature RIM program  74% say lifecycle controls are efficient  77% cite internal audit alignment Yet, only….  8% use metrics to “inspect what they expect”  17% conduct RIM compliance audits
  • 11.
    Senior management ishiding from the risks. 31% of respondents report that poor electronic records-keeping is causing problems with regulators and auditors. 14% are incurring fines or bad publicity. Source: AIIM Industry Watch
  • 12.
    Something has tobe done about content accumulation. For 29% the response to the information deluge is “buy more discs.” Source: AIIM Industry Watch
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    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. 13 The content may be electronic but the e-discovery mechanisms are still manual. 53% are still reliant on manual processes for e- discovery searches across file shares, email and physical records. Source: AIIM Industry Watch
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    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. 14 IT is losing its ability to transform business. For a third of organizations, 90% of IT spend adds no new value. Source: AIIM Industry Watch
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    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. 15 Survey by Harvard Business Review, The Economist, Corporate Executive Board, Intel, TNS Global “57% of the executives expect their IT function to change significantly over the next three years, and 12% predict a complete overhaul of IT.” “Almost half of CEOs rate their CIOs negatively in terms of understanding the business and understanding how to apply IT in new ways to the business.” “Only a quarter of executives feel their CIO is performing above his or her peers.” “Almost half of CEOs feel IT should be a commodity service purchased as needed.” Source: “The IT Conversation We Should Be Having,” HBR Blogs
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    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. #AIIM The Global Community of Information Professionals aiim.org 1 – Context 2 – Reality 3 – Opportunity
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    Information Chaos Systems ofEngagement and Record misaligned. Mobile means information leaking everywhere. Information coming faster than it can be digested. More silos than ever – and new ones in the cloud The “business” circumvents IT. We’re spending too much on technology. Information Opportunity End to end process synchronization. Governance occurs regardless of device. Analytics automatically categorizes and disposes. Governance occurs regardless of location. IT spend aligned with opportunities. Cloud opportunities to save on legacy. Business Benefit Processes transparent to customers. Employees and customers work on their own device. Static information now at rest put into motion. It doesn’t matter where information “lives.” A new business/IT alignment. IT shifts from a cost center to value creator.
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    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. 23 Agenda The three faces of governance The importance of achieving governance Your role in convincing the organization to move forward
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    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. It’s good for you. It’s the right thing to do. It will keep you out of jail. You should do it.
  • 25.
    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. Redefining Governance -- RISK
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    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. 26 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% Excess litigation costs or damages resulting from… Loss of customer confidence or bad publicity from… Loss of intellectual property or company confidential… Inability to respond to requests (Freedom of… Infringement of industry-specific compliance… Audit qualifications due to inadequate records Regulator action from loss/exposure of personally… Poor outcome of customer/supplier disputes due to… Criminal prosecution for allowing personally sensitive… Manage Information Risks Better Which of the following do you consider to be the three biggest risks to your company from a failure of information governance? (max THREE) N=500
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    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. 27 Redefining Governance -- COST
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    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. 28 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% Reduce storage and infrastructure costs Exploit and share our knowledge resources Faster response to events, accidents, press… More personalized and accurate service to… Better customer/supplier relationships Support for potential big data initiatives Better reputation/improved shareholder value Faster and cheaper financial audits Control social media for positive benefit Reduce Information Costs Which three of the following do you consider to be the biggest benefits to your company from good information governance? (max THREE) N=506
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    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. Redefining Governance -- VALUE
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    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. 30 How much more productive do you think the administrative staff in your organization would be (or are) if their processes were work- flowed, using scanned forms and documents, with automated data capture? 33.5% more productive (average) Maximize the Business Benefit - 1
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    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. 31 How much more productive do you think professional staff in your organization would be (or are) if they could find internal information and documents as quickly and as easily as they find information on the web? 30.9% more productive (average) Maximize the Business Benefit - 2
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    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. 32 Photo source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/globalx/4864001692/ How much would it improve (or have you improved) the efficiency of your office staff by giving them sufficient remote or mobile access to company information that they are able to efficiently work from home or on-the- road? 25.1% more efficient (average) Maximize the Business Benefit - 3
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    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. 33 By how much do you think customer service levels and response times could be (or have been) improved if all of your customer-facing staff could immediately access and share all of the customer related and case-related information that you hold? 32.2% more responsive (average) Maximize the Business Benefit - 4
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    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. 34 Agenda The three faces of governance The importance of achieving governance Your role in convincing the organization to move forward
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    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. 35 You better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone, for the times they are a- changin’.
  • 36.
    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. Consumerization is transforming what users expect from applications and how we deliver them.
  • 37.
    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. 37 The Four Drivers of Consumerization A programming language and SDK A friction free distribution platform
  • 38.
    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. Cloud and mobile are creating an expectation of anywhere, anytime access.
  • 40.
    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. The future is flat and agile, not hierarchical and slow.
  • 41.
    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. 41 Understand that New Skills are Required  WAS/IS… • IT helps reduce costs. • Senior Execs oblivious to technology. • Complexity insures job security. • IT is a railroad builder. • Process standardization the objective. • Most spending CAPEX. • Mobile/social are differentiators. • Pure technical skills valued.  Most of the money is still here.  WILL BE… • IT helps reduce risk and create value. • Senior Execs tech aware. • Simplicity is the pre-eminent value. • IT is a taxi company. • Process agility the objective. • Most spending OPEX. • Mobile/social are a feature. • Technical skills in context valued.  Most of the money will soon be here. New Integrated Skills for the Age of Social, Mobile, and Cloud
  • 42.
    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. 42 The old world of centrally-controlled, one size fits all, RIM control is dead.
  • 43.
    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. 43 RIM needs to understand that they are now in a different business. In the past, RIM was in the… 1 -- Compliance business 2 -- Security business 3 -- Privacy business 4 -- Legal business
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    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. 44 These roles don’t go away, but in the new world RIM’s core focus must be to…
  • 45.
    Create a decisionframework that analyzes the risks and rewards of new technologies and drives decisions with the framework rather than based on the technologies themselves.
  • 46.
    Connect the dots.In today’s social world, one of RIM’s greatest callings is to help make sure information is managed according to its value, regardless of its format or location. Think information logistics (with IT) and information curation.
  • 47.
    Drive business value.Good information management practices directly benefit the bottom line of the organization. The reverse is also true.
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    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. 48 Aviation Charts - Before Aviation Charts - Now Digitize Everything That Moves
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    Think patterns ofwork rather than focusing on “records” or formats.
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    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. 51 Build Bridges, Not Silos  The vast majority of organizations see the need to manage information as an enterprise resource rather than in separate "silos," departments, or systems, but they don't know how to begin to address the challenge, as it is so large...  Professional roles focused on information management will be different to that of established IT [and RIM] roles.  An "information professional" will not be one type of role or skill set, but will in fact have a number of specializations.  Deb Logan and Regina Casonata, Gartner
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    Copyright © AIIM| All rights reserved. #AIIM The Global Community of Information Professionals aiim.org Jesse Wilkins, CIP, CRM, IGP Director, Research & Development AIIM jwilkins@aim.org @jessewilkins The Three Faces of Information Governance: Context, Reality, and Opportunity

Editor's Notes

  • #10 Usually not in isolation.
  • #25 How we usually sell governance. According to AIIM’s Information Governance - records, risks and retention in the litigation age… …in only 15% of organizations is Information Governance “in place, important, and communicated and enforced.”
  • #26 Reducing risk. This is perhaps the best understood WHY? of information governance. If you are in an industry in which there are either compliance or litigation concerns and costs (uhhh…let’s see…is there one in which these are not a concern?) then the only way to reduce this risk is to have defensible information management policies.   However, this is where the argument for information governance usually stops. Usually this leaves governance in the hands of people with “Information,” “Legal,” or “Records” in their title. In a tight economy in which competitive pressures are constantly rising, I fear that risk alone is a necessary but not sufficient reason to take information governance seriously. Forrester’s Alan Weintraub notes, “Good information governance isn’t just about risk, it’s about making the business more agile.”
  • #28 Reduce costs. Left to their own devices, the “business” will view litigation, compliance, storage costs related to ever-increasing volumes of information as externalities. They will assume that “someone else” will pay for it, and continue to engage in a content and information consumption binge that will inevitably result in what IBM’s George Parapadakis calls “content obesity.” Per the Compliance, Governance, and Oversight Council, “90% of the data in the world was created in the last two years. We have reached a tipping point: the growth rate of information now far exceeds IT budgets and the processes for governing that information.”   The ONLY way to reduce these costs is by reducing the scale of information being saved. And the ONLY way to do this effectively is through information governance. And the ONLY way to scale information governance is by automating as much of it as possible.
  • #30 Increasing revenues. Talk to any executive long enough and inevitably something like the following will come up: “We need to increase customer engagement as a pathway to capturing share and growing revenues.”   For many years, the content management industry has talked about “getting the right information to the right person at the right time to make the right decision.” Even though this rationale was overstated in the early era of content management systems, it is now at the heart of the business problem of customer engagement. Information overload and content chaos threaten to overwhelm our ability to understand and act on customer needs. It is through this prism that we need to consider information governance.   Content and information is the currency that flows through all of our core processes.
  • #42 1242 Reality #5: New Skills Required. Numbered are the days of the Gestapo IT department that require you to only stuff they approve and support. It’s a new world out there. IT was a lot about cost reduction, now it is about creating value. Complexity was job security, not it is about simple and smart IT was a railroad builder, now it is more like a taxi company. It needs to take this place today, and another place tomorrow. We need it now, not in 6 months. Most spending was cap ex, now its op ex. We are also seeing an increased tension between the business and IT, is reflected in these data points from a recent survey by the Harvard Business Review and The Economist about what CEOs think about their own CIOs:  Almost half of CEOs rate their CIOs negatively in terms of understanding the business and understanding how to apply IT in new ways to the business.  57% of CEOs expect their IT function to change significantly over the next three years and 12% predict the complete overhaul of IT.  Almost half of CEOs feel IT should be a commodity service purchased only as needed. Or as one of our members said it: CIO now stands for Career is Over. But the reality is that right now, the majority of the MONEY is on the left side. In 3-5 years, the majority of the money will be on the right side. But how quickly?
  • #49 Harvey Spencer – How Mobile Capture Can Transform Your Business Process -- Despite continual moves towards electronic documents, paper still affects all business – checks, receipts, and business cards and are just some examples. These documents are being scanned today using cell phone cameras to transform business processes. More specialized documents are being captured by mobile workers, such as truck drivers who have to capture and process transportation documents. There are approximately 18 million mobile workers in the US today; forecast to rise by 11% to over 20 million by 2018. These workers cover a range of industries and occupations from auditors to salesmen to tax examiners; from claims adjusters to medical workers to meter readers. All of them need to be integrated into today’s real-time business environments using mobile wireless broadband communications. At the same time they need to capture and process physical documents. The capabilities and power of smart mobile devices, cameras, and bandwidth continue to improve; expanding the range of capability and potential applications. We estimate that around $500m a year can be spent on technologies by 2015 to capture business-critical information using mobile devices.