Knowledge Management

20 Year Celebrations for the Institute of Information Management (IIM)

2018 marks the Institute of Information Management (IIM) 20th anniversary. Formed in 1998 IIM is the premier Australasian body for the information management industry. 

Stuff and nonsense in Border Force record-keeping: Report

The Auditor-General has launched another scathing indictment of record-keeping practice in the Australian federal government, following a wide-ranging investigation into the Australian Border Force (ABF), a mega agency created in 2015 through the merger of the border control functions of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection and the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service.

Knowledge Management is Thriving and More Critical Than Ever

Some notable observers have declared that “knowledge management is dead,” that it is an old, tired concept that creates little to no value in organizations. This drumbeat of negativity is misguided. On the contrary, knowledge management (KM) has evolved and matters more than ever to all types of companies and organizations.

Intelligent Search and File Management Solution

Docxonomy has announce the formal worldwide launch of its intelligent search and file management solution .

A Strategy for Search – the key to an effective Digital Workplace

An oft-quoted statistic has information workers spending 1.8 hours each day or 9.3 hours per week searching for information. If you are in a team of five, this equates to one of you making about as much progress as if they spent the day at the football. 

Objective embraces a digital future at new Sydney HQ

The cubicle walls in today’s workplace are coming down, nowhere more obvious than at Objective Corporation’s impressive new global HQ, known internally as The Skylab, located in the IT heartland of North Sydney.Moving to the new premises in 2017 required staff hike only a short distance up the road from their old office, however Objective took the opportunity to design a purpose-built new facility for more than 250 staff, including around 100 software engineers and developers, that fully embraced the trend towards activity-based working and digital processes.

Google Removes “View Image” Button from Image Search Results

Google has changed the way users search for images by removing the "View Image" button from search results. This button, which previously accompanied every result, allowed users to view images directly without visiting the corresponding website from which the image was sourced.

National Library Board of Singapore (NLB) signs with Civica

Civica has announced a new multi-million dollar deal with National Library Board of Singapore (NLB) to supply the Spydus library management solution and associated services for four years, with an option to extend to eight years.

Enterprise Collaboration: Still Wandering in the Desert

Information workers may sit in a sea of fuzzy cubes, spread across windowless floors lit by fluorescent lights, but when it comes time to collaborate they are often wandering the desert looking for a home.

Artificial Intelligence is Dumber Than a Bee. For Now!

The nervous system of a mosquito consists of about half a million neurons. That of a bee – of 800,000 neurons, of a dog – of 160 million neurons. A human has 85 billion neurons in the system. Modern computer systems contain only a few hundred thousand neurons and in rare cases, a few million, which, in terms of intelligence, is comparable to a bee. Bees are technically 100 times dumber than dogs and 100,000 times dumber than humans.

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