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9 "Must Haves" of Records Management

A fruit seller at the local market had “Best Quality” red apples for sale on one side of her stand at $3.50 and others marked “Great value” for $2.50 on the other side. A friend asks her – what’s the difference between the apples. Her answer – just the price and what the buyer perceives… Sticker price is not always a good proxy for value. 

Chief Data Officer: The new corporate rock star?

The is no better measure of the growing prominence of the Chief Data Officer role than the emergence of business conferences dedicated to discussing its impact. At the 2015 CDO Forum in Melbourne, Katrina Read, Analytics Client Architect Leader for IBM Asia Pacific presented a session entitled: Chief Data Officer - The Next Corporate Rock Star. Intrigued by the possible conjunction of spandex, extended guitar solos and data analytics, IDM asked Katrina to expand on her thesis.

ECM Data Integrity and Transparency

BIG DATA has been a public topic for quite some time now. However, data integrity and transparency are rarely touched. If your organisation runs an ECM (Enterprise Content Management) application, or your organisation is involved in the manufacture, integration, customization and services of ECM products and solutions, you should be aware of potential data integrity and data transparency issues that are revealed in this article.

GMCT drives ahead with digitisation

A major program is underway to digitise more than three million pages of paper records recording the history of more than 20 cemeteries dispersed across Melbourne stretching from Lilydale to Werribee. Created in March 2010 by amalgamating eight former cemetery trusts, the Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust (GMCT) has begun the vast undertaking in tandem with a move to adopt the ELO electronic document and records management system.

What is Data Governance?

Earlier this year I had the pleasure of interviewing Ram Kumar from IAG (Director of Enterprise Information Management) regarding Data Governance and its impact. As an Analytics and BI recruitment consultant I have noticed an increase in organisations who are realising the impact of data governance. However, there is also a lot of confusion as to what data governance actually entails from both organisations and specialists. With this in mind I thought I would find out from someone with far more experience than me.

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