Are you making the most of your information assets? What's the Issue? Local authorities are still under pressure to deliver a multitude of quality services and facilities to the community with a declining workforce and ever tightening budget constraints. Manual paper-based processes, lack of real-time information and onerous information governance slows the pace of these business processes. How do you become more efficient with your existing resources? What's the Answer? By developing an organisation wide Information Management Strategy to identify and extract real business value from their information assets and through the streamlining and automation of their document centric business processes, local government organisations are able to increase their efficiency immediately. Discover how your organisation could increase efficiencies by adopting Objective's agile approach to better Information Management, which will allow your organisation to move towards its goal in four small, manageable steps. Discover more at www.objective.co.uk/foursteps

1. Depending upon where your organisation is within their maturity level of an Enterprise Information Management Strategy, Step 1 can be a shortened stage within our agile approach, but it is a vital element in ensuring consolidated and successful Information Management across the entire organisation.
TACKLE YOUR INFORMATION ASSETS
Discover how your organisation could increase efficiencies by adopting an agile approach to better Information Management. Request your complementary half day Information Management Workshop today to take the first step towards developing a risk- free, enterprise-wide Information Management Strategy.
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP can provide a range of consultative offerings to tackle both broad and specific Information Management issues within your organisation. From helping to raise the critical impact that effective Information Management can have on the organisation to all layers within your organisation, to carrying out detailed departmental based workflow and process studies to help you develop the policies and strategies that are right for your organisation.
The success of any Information Management programme hinges upon a number of critical and interlinked factors, each of which can be unique to every organisation. Our workshops explore the concepts of information, its growing importance and value, and how it can be strategically leveraged as a critical asset and repurposed collaboratively in a controlled and secure manner.
A full Information Management Workshop programme typically requires 15-25 days of activity and delivers three main outcomes:
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Development of an organisation wide Information Management Strategy tailored for individual clients
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Guidance on the creation of an Information Asset Register as part of an Information Audit to cover both physical and electronic media
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An outline business case as a gateway approval for the adoption of an Enterprise Information Management Strategy across the organisation
With the proliferation of information over the last few decades, organisations have struggled to develop suitable strategies to effectively manage and exploit information to maximise its business value. Organisations are increasingly involved in a wide range of external engagement activities and as this trend continues, the need to support cross- organisational collaboration is becoming increasingly significant for all stakeholders.
So how does your organisation formulate a strategy which allows for the unified management of information throughout the information lifecycle regardless of source or format?
Objective have developed an agile approach to better Information Management, which will allow your organisation to de-risk its investment in developing an enterprise- wide Information Management Strategy to resolve your information challenges in small, manageable steps.
Objective offers advice that is not “strategic blue-sky thinking” but practical guidance that is collaborative and realistic in both approach and content and which is tailored to individual organisations to support their needs and capabilities. Step 1 in Objective’s four step approach is to deliver practical and realistic Information Management Workshops.
As organisations seek to reduce costs, promote smarter and more flexible working practices and maintain service delivery to citizens and stakeholders, Information Management becomes ever more crucial. We
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ARE YOU MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR INFORMATION ASSETS?
The Information Management Workshop helped us reach the following conclusions amongst our Senior Management team:
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For the first time the senior management team was able to focus and reach a common consensus regarding the important role of optimised Information Management to meet the Council’s vision
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The Council’s Transformation Programme would only deliver its intended outcomes if the right information management framework was in place
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The implementation of best practice information management would also help each Directorate achieve its goals
Richard Stiff, Chief Executive, Angus Council
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2. Improving responsiveness and operating more efficiently relies on giving staff easy access to general corporate content and information stored in business systems. Integrating an Information Repository with the core applications that drive organisational operations, combined with the streamlining and automation of business processes will help achieve these goals. However, while technology is important, the secret to success is to consider other factors that contribute to a successful Information Management Strategy.
In order to de-risk your investment in an Enterprise-wide Information Management (IM) Strategy, Objective recommend an agile approach to better Information Management which will allow an organisation to move towards its goal in small, manageable steps.
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STEP 2.
STEP 3.
STEP 4.
Information Management
Workshop
An Objective IM Workshop delivers:
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Development of an Enterprise-wide IM Strategy tailored for individual clients
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Guidance on the creation of an Information Asset Register as part of an Information Audit to cover both physical and electronic media
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An outline business case as a gateway approval for the adoption of an IM Strategy across the organisation
Information Audit
Discover and Cleanse
The Objective Information Audit utilises the market leading solution from Active Navigation and is designed to discover and then clean up your file servers providing your organisation with clean content, exposing the core value within your information assets, eliminating low value information and reducing risks presented by sensitive data.
Information Management Foundation
An Information Management Repository is deployed within the organisation either as a separate Information Repository or one which supports an organisations preference to utilise a “governed” Microsoft SharePoint installation as their Enterprise Information Management platform. Typically this would be rolled out to users within a discrete department or service area.
Enterprise Information
Management
With a successful Information Management Foundation in place, an organisation can continue migrating services, departments and automated business processes to the new Enterprise Information Management platform in manageable, incremental, stages.
Following an agile approach should lead to 100% user adoption of Enterprise IM across the entire organisation.
ADOPT AN AGILE APPROACH TO BETTER INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
DE-RISK YOUR INVESTMENT IN AN
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
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