Emergent patterns on the internet

One of the blogs (Dutch) I follow pointed me to a speech by Dr. Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google on the future of technology. Schmidt points out that within a few years we will carry around more video material on our iPOD’s than we will be able to view in a lifetime. We are entering the Information Age, where information is ubiquitous, omni-present. And besides the rather obvious referrals to Moore’s law (processor speed doubles every 18 months) and Kryder’s law (hard disk capacity doubles every year), he touched on a subject that is close to my heart: the power of information.

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One of my current work places is an IT department. A rather large IT department with about 100 guys working on Content Management. I have been involved in a number of projects now over the years and I proposed to strike a few words from our vocabulary. I am pretty sure this will help a lot in getting to solutions that actually work after the famous go-live date.

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How do we value information?

One of the keynote speakers at Gartner’s Portal, Content and Collaborations Summit in London last month was Tara Brabazon. She was introduced as a possibly controversial speaker, well, I can tell you, half way through her speech the audience was in shock!

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Business cases for ECM

Yesterday, I was in London for the AIIM Education Advisory Board on ECM and ERM. I think it is a good thing to have an education advisory board come together on a regular basis. It shows that you want to keep an active link to your community. You get feedback and are able to, in turn, learn from your students and other experts from the field.

The day in London was one of sharing insights and information on what changes we as a group had seen in ECM and ERM over the last 3 years and what trends we saw for the coming 3 years. Endulging myself in thoughts and reflections, I like nothing better.

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SOA from an Enterprise 2.0 perspective

Yesterday at the SOA Symposium in Amsterdam, I had the opportunity to share something I have been working on for the past 1.5 years, a communication model called SPOT. SPOT stands for single point of truth and refers to sharing all relevant information on products in the case of Philips.
The title of my presentation was ‘Freeing the flow of information!’, something we from content management have been trying to achieve ever since it was first formulated like this in Ann Rockley’s book ‘Managing Enterprise Content’. Anyhow, in my opinion this is what SOA is all about as well. The idea of enabling information to get to the place where it can be used.

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4 C’s for Information

Over the last couple of years content has arisen as a subject on its own, claiming its rightful place in the project. Thanks to many professionals speaking on conferences and writing books, the good news travelled across the world. The business value of content got attention; sometimes because a client goes for quality, but often through fear and embarrassment. To keep the current management attention focused on the content, we need ways to measure and report on the information quality. People often mention timeliness as the most important aspect of content quality on the internet. And yes, it is important, but there are a couple of others around as well.

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