I often hear people talking about the amount of data that is being created as being unprecedented. It isn’t. What is unprecedented is its retention. …
It’s been a lucrative decade for consultants in information management with new work being as easy to win as saying the word “compliance”. Executives are…
In my book, Information-Driven Business, I introduce the concept of the “Small Worlds” test on information. In summary, this measure determines the relationship between complexity…
Any serious business discussion about information must include email. Like it or loathe it, email is a major part of every knowledge worker’s life. Unfortunately…
Adapted from Information-Driven Business: How to Manage Data and Information for Maximum Advantage, by Robert Hillard. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. See www.infodrivenbusiness.com. The concept…
I’ve advocated for many years that Information Management should be a superset of related disciplines including data warehousing, document management, library science, enterprise search et…
Imagine if modern accounting was an invention of the past decade. Given the heavy use of computer technology, it’s very likely that the entire discipline…
MIS Asia and affiliated magazines/sites around the world have published an interview with me about my book, Information-Driven Business (Wiley 2010). The article is titled…
In 2007 Alex Berson and Larry Dubov released their book “Master Data Management and Customer Data Integration for a Global Enterprise”. It was the first…
Some time ago I posted “To Pluto and Back” drawing on Richard Wray’s piece in The Guardian about the constant growth in the generation and…