Doing Information Right™

Effectively propagating our messages of information governance goodness is one of your biggest and most important challenges, whether you're trying to get your programs moving in the first place or reinforce the successes you’ve already had. 

Join me and content marketing consultant Bryant Duhon as we talk about the need for, and role of, the kind of communication needed to win people’s hearts and minds and call them to action!

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People-related issues require people-centered responses. So when the folks in your organization resist your information governance efforts, make it personal by addressing the usual challenges of politics, baggage, and religion. 

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As information professionals, we deal daily with a mass of details and endless internal politicking. But it’s vital that we always remember that there are PEOPLE at the end of our workstreams who are affected by what we do. My thought is to create an IG Code of Human Ethics to ensure that what we do actually provides human benefit. Are you with me? 

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Organization not moving fast enough for you regarding information governance? Or getting off the schneid at all? Join me and long-time infogov professional Rich Lauwers as we discuss all manner of points to make in order to foment success where you work. Things like:

• Think about technology in terms of both adaptability and adoptability.

• Consider your business needs first.

• Ensure you have an actual reason to use AI before committing to it (one possibility: language translation).

• Make your self-service wikis (for employees and customers) more personal and actionable.

This may be the best 20 minutes you’ve heard in a long time!

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When it comes to making the business case for information governance, we need to seek tangible, readily-understood, administrative and operating costs that our sound information disciplines can reduce. The familiar arguments that things will get “better” and “faster” are all well and good, but you can’t beat adding “calculably cheaper” if you really want to capture your senior team’s attention.

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Hey guess what? If you're an information governance or records professional, you are foundational to the success of AI in your organization. All you have to do is keep doing you. 

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Information governance issues like findability, retention, compliance, and privacy don’t stand still … they either get better or they get worse, and they don’t get better on their own. Chances are, you know have to do SOMETHING, but haven’t yet figured out what.

The problem is that not making a decision today about how to address these issues IS, in fact, making a fateful decision for tomorrow: namely, to let your situation fester. This is risky on a whole lot of levels ranging from simply finding information when you need it and efficiently handling ediscovery, to imperiling your ability to move to the cloud and even retaining your key information people. 

Here’s 143 seconds to explain what a big deal making non-decision decisions can be.

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In the realm of information, where accuracy's paramount,
You find vetted truths, a reliable account.

Content is deleted, storage space freed,
Records disposed of, no longer in need.

Sensitive data, you guard with care,
Compliant policies, thorough and fair.

Your staff is trained, their tasks they do,
Technology aligned, targeted and true.

If this isn’t you, then put up a fight
And call me to start Doing Information Right™!

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 Steve Weissman • [email protected] • 617-383-4655

© Steve Weissman • All Rights Reserved • www. hollygroup.com • 617-383-4655

 If you or your organization is looking to rationalize the need for information governance, this composite tale should help make the case by speaking to several of the most common risks associated with standing pat – as well as tips for remediation. These include challenges related to (1) findability, (2) privacy protection, (3) compliance, and (4) migration, especially to the cloud.

FREE companion download! "5 Steps to Doing Information Right™" – get your copy NOW at https://bit.ly/5-steps-page!

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If you’ve talked your information governance strategy up for months, got what you thought was a clear go-ahead, and upon starting got so much push-back that you couldn’t do ANYTHING … here’s something to remember that may let you to move forward in at least some way, shape, or form.  

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