As a consultant and educator, I’m often asked about information management certifications so I’ve been watching the development of the Information Governance Professional (IGP) certification by ARMA International (ARMA) with interest. According to ARMA, a certified Information Governance Professional “creates and oversees programs to govern the information assets of the enterprise. The IGP partners with the business to facilitate […]
Information management practitioners are familiar with metadata (or data about data) in the context of records. It is one of many tools that can be used to identify and categorize information, thus making it easier and faster to find in the future. Records metadata is a useful tool which doesn’t get a lot of attention. But metadata […]
(Please note: Some cartoons originally posted in this article caused some technical difficulties, so they have been temporarily removed and replaced with links. Hopefully we will be able to restore the original images soon.) I’m always on the look out for humourous cartoons to use in training materials and the Dilbert comic strip by Scott […]
Does your company have a Chief Data Officer (CDO) yet? In a December 2012 report, Gartner group reported on the trend towards this new C-level leader in large organizations responsible for dealing with the threats and opportunities created by increasing information complexity and incoherence. Gartner predicts that by as early as 2017, 20% of large enterprises […]
This fall I will once again be teaching courses in the University of Toronto iSchool Institute’s two certificate programs in Records Management. I will be teaching two of the five courses in the Records Management Fundamentals certificate, and two of the five courses in the Records Management Practice Certificate. Each course is one day, and […]
Many organizations have vast accumulations of unstructured (and usually uncontrolled) information such as word-processed documents, spreadsheets, emails and social media content. What does unstructured information cost an organization? Barclay T. Blair, President and Founder of ViaLumina, set out to answer that question and the following related questions earlier this year: Which kinds of costs should […]