Frequently evaluating your company’s collaboration maturity is a great way to determine where knowledge gaps exist, what facets require additional education and how to assist people to expand their use of SharePoint. Departments will not mature at the same rate of speed, so it’s beneficial to build a model of maturity for your organisation so that you can plan the steps to take to move each department or group to the next level of collaboration maturity.
A smarter approach to the challenge of Big Data can be achieved through better knowledge management, says Victorian Department of Primary Industry specialist Richard Vines.
Many companies are questioning whether to host SharePoint on premise or in the cloud. There are many factors in determining an answer to this, and indeed hosting in the cloud isn’t even a straightforward decision. You have to decide whose cloud you move to for starters.
On the final hearing day of a Queensland parliamentary inquiry into the release of Fitzgerald Inquiry documents, Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) Commissioner George Fox defended Director of Information Peter Duell, who has taken ultimate responsibility for changing the embargo date on sensitive documents.
Although electronic record-keeping has become a must, many organisations are still taking a haphazard approach, according to a global survey on information governance conducted by AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management). Senior management seems to be ignoring the risks; in fact, 31 percent of responding organisations report that poor electronic recordkeeping is causing problems with regulators, auditors and courts.
Lawyers may be enthusiastic about the prospect of comprehensive information governance as a means to reduce litigation e-discovery risks, but a survey of small and medium business by US analyst firm 451 Research indicates that non-lawyers, senior executives, and IT staff may not be placing a high priority on these legal and regulatory needs.
Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) has deployed enterprise mobility management solution from Good Technology, Good for Enterprise (GFE), to enable its staff to securely access a range of collaboration and productivity applications including email, calendar, contacts, intranet, SharePoint access and document viewing and editing.
What’s a Records Manager to do when users across the organisation are uploading non-compliant scanned images to the corporate EDRMS? In many cases this is occurring because the organisation has deployed multifunction devices (MFDs) and staff are making use of the inbuilt scan functionality.
With the transition process in Afghanistan under way, the repatriation of records accumulated in the Middle East Area of Operations has become a focus for Australia’s Defence Forces. Colonel Kath Stewart is leading the Defence Information Management Tiger Team, which is tackling the challenge head-on.
