Throughout every day at every company, information is produced. Email, documents, annual reports, plans, statements, invoices, and other types of information are generated at a staggering rate. Some of the information you create and collect falls into the category of a “record.” Records are important to a company, so important that companies define policies that […]
The amount of information your company is creating and collecting is growing larger every year and you know it’s not all useful. You know it’s time to clean house. But your management team doesn’t see the point. They think storage is cheap and it’s better to have too much information than not enough. You need […]
Gartner said it well: “store everything isn’t an effective information governance strategy.” With the amount of information an organization creates and captures growing exponentially every year, it will be impossible to manage that data in a way the ensures it’s secure, compliant and available when it’s needed. So can we just agree that you need […]
There are many people involved in developing, implementing and managing information governance strategies in most organizations. In order to bring coherence to those efforts, many organizations are adding a new C-level position, the Chief Data Officer (CDO). The Wikipedia definition of the Chief Data Officer: “A chief data officer is a corporate officer responsible for […]
One of the most common information governance challenges we talk to customers about is finding and organizing content from across the organization – often referred to as “Dark Content”. Content is found everywhere: in file shares and SharePoint, in business applications, on desktops, in cloud-based file sharing and storage applications. Knowing exactly what information you […]
According to Wikipedia, the term “Small Ball” in baseball means: “An offensive strategy in which the batting team emphasizes placing runners on base and then advancing them into scoring position for a run in a deliberate, methodical way.” “Small Ball” is out of vogue in the major leagues today — the game is all about […]
At Everteam, we meet with smart people in large organizations. Every week we find ourselves on calls and in conference rooms with business and IT executives talking about their information governance challenges. And it is no surprise that in recent months a lot of these conversations are about compliance with data privacy and retention requirements […]
One of the challenges of being in the information governance software space is that there is no common definition of what constitutes an information governance solution. If everyone shared a common definition of what information governance software solutions do it would shorten a lot of my conversations. But I think we are still a ways […]
Apologies to Elvis Costello. Last week I had the opportunity to host a roundtable at the Association of Intelligent Information Management’s annual conference in San Antonio. If you are not familiar with the annual AIIM conference, here is what you need to know: What was once essentially a convention for records managers is now a […]
Based on past surveys, we have found that the majority of IT organizations have enterprise software systems that they continue to manage long after they have been replaced, solely as storage for content. The result is wasted spending and unnecessary risk, both of which you can reduce with an application decommissioning initiative. Application decommissioning centers […]