Taming BIG Data: Taking Back Control, Part 2 – Creation

CIOs and others responsible for corporate technology initiatives are challenged to gain control of the ever expanding amount of data available today. The “Taming Big Data” series of articles focuses on solutions that build a sustainable model to keep up with such changes. In this article, we will look at formalizing your enterprise information management…

Transforming Information into Knowledge, Part III

Keeping up with a fast paced dynamic business is challenging if not impossible for most IT organizations. Fortunately, there are ways to improve agility and provide better support to fast moving enterprises. This article, the last in this series, discusses four key strategies for servicing the agile organization: Establish clear content lifecycle processes; Actively manage…

Transforming Information into Knowledge, Part III

Develop consistent terminology An agile organization needs a taxonomy and enterprise metadata standards to make information more usable and findable. Think about what would happen if different parts of the organization spoke different languages — engineering spoke Spanish, legal spoke French and accounting spoke English. It would take a long time to get information from…

Transforming Information Into Knowledge, Part II

by Seth Earley of Earley & Associates In part one of this series, I explored how effective access to and, integration of, information enables businesses to receive more value from IT investments. This second installment addresses the role played by enterprise taxonomy in turning information into actionable knowledge. Information is actionable when it is understood…

Transforming Information into Knowledge, Part I

Business changes faster than technology can support. That is just a fact of a CIO’s life. But there are ways to improve organizational agility and better support the demands of an ever-changing enterprise. This three part series will discuss various strategies for better meeting business needs. In this article, I focus on how to create…

Information Governance isn’t so Bad After All

As a speaker at many technology events, it’s always fun to see the reaction the phrase “information governance” elicits — I’ve seen everything from eye rolls to head nods. “Easy for you to say — try and implement it!” said one particularly feisty individual. “Yeah, we are still trying to figure it out,” grumbles another….

Special Report – IT’s Critical Partnership with Records Management

Businesses today function primarily with records in electronic form. The power of technology enables companies to become more competitive and to streamline business processes. Therefore, more and more of an organization’s records are electronic. Companies are more dependent than ever on the electronic records and information pulsing through their networks, wireless devices, data warehouses, transactional…