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Information Leadership wins NZ local government award

New Zealand information and knowledge management solution provider Information Leadership was awarded ICT Vendor of the Year at the recent Annual Association of Local Government Information Management (ALGIM) Awards. The company was nominated by the Upper Hutt City Council which has recently implemented an electronic document and records management system and intranet SharePoint solution.

Number of data related incidents rising says AIIM

More than half of organisations surveyed by AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management) for a recent report on data governance have had data-related incidents in the past 12 months, including 16% suffering a data breach.

Paperless government: why it’s failing and how to fix it

I read an article recently about how the paperless push in the Victorian Government was apparently failing. My immediate thought was “not surprised” given the way most organisations (including government agencies) approach the transition to a paperless office.

The biggest mistakes in sharing knowledge ... and how to avoid them

Before anything else, make sure you instil the following message into your company's culture and never, ever forget it: The purpose of documentation is to transfer the right information to the right people at the right time. Anything that interferes with this objective is at best a waste of time, at worst downright dangerous.

You want me to OCR that!

Thinking about OCR technology to help you extract data from paper or pdf documents? There are a number of things to keep in mind when you begin your evaluation of this technology. This discussion is more related to advanced data capture requirements and to give you some high level information and thought direction.

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