Tag Archive for 'Knowledge'

Managing Information Management !!

Sei IS Managing Information Management !!
Pure Knowledge: Nothing More-Nothing Less

I recently had to outline for a client the steps they needed to take to move from a solutions driven Information strategy to a governance driven Information strategy.  The objective was to consider how this apparent low-priority set of tasks could in the longer term mean cost efficient management of company data and even today save resource time by reducing the time to find the most relevant data.

The neutralised report is attached which I will hope might assist you in fleshing out your Information Management plans.  Open here  Short White Paper on Information Management

 

 

 

100 Million Items in a list and SharePoint 2010 Conference Las Vegas.

First day yesterday and I did have to twitter everyone to say that Microsoft does have a winner in SharePoint 2010 although they do seem to have forgotten a few things. 

Missing things tend to be small things that annoy when building sites and lists rather than large things that stops a coder delivering functionality… a typical example is the failure to provide a cascading Look-up field… which if you are not familiar would allow you to include a field in a SharePoint form that provides a drop down choice from another list within the same site.  Continue reading ’100 Million Items in a list and SharePoint 2010 Conference Las Vegas.’

Knowledge Relativity

Steve looks at the problems of Data Storage and Knowledge Relativity that could be a solution for managing corporate data and saving back-up and storage Budgets.

The problem that most people face is that they don’t actually know what knowledge is, they have a great idea of what information is, organisations have Terabytes of it sitting on hard-drives costing money to support and protect.  So how does one select the bytes that are knowledge and those that are not?  The answer is relativity to the data… but let’s gets back to that later.

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Taxonomy… then Governance

Governance Taxonomy... then GovernanceA Content Management System (used for Intranet or Internet sites) is one breed of web site and a Knowledge Management System is another. 

Lets consider them both and look at the differences that add value to the corporate Intranet.

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Those Famous Words….

steve dalby 128x128 Those Famous Words....I am sure you have all read them as your twitter account draws you to an interesting site of someones personal interests or role in life…. they are of course

Welcome to my Blog site

Now don’t get me wrong, you are all more than Welcome to read through some of the items I will be adding and maybe get to follow me around Europe as I travel and do what I hope are interesting things and share odd pictures, but…

I want to entertain, indulge in some strange ideas and collect your comments as we enter the sometimes rather obtuse world of SharePoint and it’s rather cool ways of ensuring knowledge is collected and make relevant to the reader just when they needed it.

Pure Knowledge, Nothing more-Nothing Less..

After all this is what your company paid out the money for… now to make it happen.