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Records Management: Top RM Challenges

By Dick Weisinger

The office of the inspector general has identifed the top 10 challenges that NARA, the National Archive and Records Administration, is facing in 2009. Most of the challenges aren’t unique to NARA but can be applied in a similar way…

Innovation: Electronic Readers on the Horizon

By Dick Weisinger

The WSJ awards in innovation are out and e-Reader technology is high on their list.  Other publications like the SF Chronicle have also recently featured e-Readers as break-out technologies.  The Amazon Kindle helped originally stake out and define the market,…

Sarbanes-Oxley: Fourth and Final Extension

By Dick Weisinger

Sarbanes-Oxley was enacted in 2002, and since then small businesses have not let up in their complaints that the requirements were too costly and onerous for them to be able to comply with. The SEC has four times extended the…

BPM: Three Waves of Process Management

By Dick Weisinger

A new book, ‘Business Process Management, the Third Wave’ by Howard Smith and Peter Fingar, identifies three phases of business processes. Business processes began to take shape in the 1920’s when theories around work processes first started.   Back then,…

Content Management: Privacy Considerations When Managing Data

By Dick Weisinger

Content Management systems are typically designed and built around capabilities like categorization, search, and accessibility.  These goals of openness and data sharing on the surface seem to be at odds with the ability to include and secure personally identifiable information…