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Category Archives: Information Management
The pandemic-driven business shifts
The short-term impact of COVID-19 is undisputed, what is not yet clear is the long-term changes that the pandemic will have wrought on the world of business. I started 2020 writing about three themes for the decade and I am … Continue reading
Post-truth surprises
Unexpected election results around the world have given the media the chance to talk about their favourite topic: themselves! With their experience running polls, the media are very good at predicting the winner out of two established parties or candidates … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, Digital, digital disruption, information economy, Uncategorized
Tagged AI, post-truth
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Serendipity
Information overload is as much an overwhelming feeling as it is a measurable reality. We often feel an impossible obligation to be across everything, which leaves us wanting to give up and absorb nothing that hits our various screens. Despite … Continue reading
Posted in digital disruption, email, Information Management, Uncategorized, web2.0
Tagged information, serendipity
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My digital foundations #1
It’s almost impossible to live these days without a plethora of digital identities that enable us to do almost everything. Whether it be our television, gaming, social media, travel or family security, we depend on all of these things to … Continue reading
Behind the scenes
Before the advances of twentieth century medicines, doctors were often deliberately opaque. They were well known for proscribing remedies for patients that were for little more than placebos. To encourage a patient’s confidence, much of what they wrote was intentionally … Continue reading
Don’t seek to know everything about your customer
I hate customer service surveys. Hotels and retailers spend millions trying to speed our checkout or purchase by helping us avoid having to wait around. Then they undo all of that good work by pestering us with customer service surveys … Continue reading
Trading your way to IT simplicity
Stop reading now if your organisation is easier to navigate today than it was 3, 5 or 10 years ago. The reality that most of us face is that the general ledger that might have cost $100,000 to implement twenty … Continue reading
Your personal cloud meets the enterprise
In organisations around the world employees are accidently merging their personal and professional cloud applications with dire results. Some of the issues include the routing of sensitive text messages to family members and the replication of confidential documents onto the … Continue reading
Posted in digital disruption, information economy, Information Management, Information Technology
Tagged BYOA, BYOD, Cloud
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The rule of 150 applied to data
Anthropologist Robin Dunbar has used his research in primates over recent decades to argue that there is a cognitive limit to the number of social relationships that an individual can maintain and hence a natural limit to the breadth of … Continue reading
Posted in Information Management, Master Data
Tagged information governance, key data elements, strategy
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The Quantum Computer dream could be killed by Information Management
For years now the physics community has been taking the leap into computer science through the pursuit of the quantum computer. As weird as the concepts underpinning the idea of such a device are, even weirder is the threat that … Continue reading
Posted in Featured, Information Management, Information Technology
Tagged information theory, quantum computing
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