Records Mgmt & Archiving

Sharepoint is nothing for bean counters in IT. ... the clash of content & technology!
(maybe this is the opportunity that IT is slowly going to understand the requirements
of RM in information mgmt)

"First, we must acknowledge that SharePoint doesn't really fit any of the standard categories used to manage IT applications. It's not an ECM system in the sense of being exclusively focused on that function alone, though it can be used to manage content. It's not a search engine, though it can search across many types of content. It manages web content, but it manages lots of other content too. And finally, the straw that we always grasp at, it's a "collaboration" platform which is fuzziness itself when bean counters try to measure its ROI."


go to AIIM Blog

... what we already know:
but the gospel has to be preached daily

from Burton group

An article in the Economist (31.1.2010) titled "Yammering away at the office" has fostered
some more positive aspects harnessing corporate usage of social media tools like Yammer.

"A third hurdle is that bosses are worried about allowing informal groups of workers
to spring up that managers cannot control. Yet this is precisely why the systems
are so valuable. Often new ideas and insights—as well as warnings about potential
threats—come from informal contacts rather than from formal meetings. The
trouble is that existing IT systems are geared towards reinforcing separate silos
rather than building bridges between them."

Knowledge mgmt is not about command and control but understanding the dynamics of trust ...

Leadership is needed:
Swimming against the information clutter

The book "Payback" by Frank Schirrmacher not only raised a lot of interest and discussions in Germany: EDGE published an interview plus comments by the "Reality Club". The video and the text is available at
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/schirrmacher09/schirrmacher09_index.html

book orders:
http://www.randomhouse.de/book/edition.jsp?edi=228696&frm=false