Life x.0 got a little busy lately and the blog posts suffered in accordance. Between responding to customer queries and proposals and family during the school holidays it was less screen time and more face time. This is a good thing, maybe I should call this "people, machine life balance".
We face some interesting times right now with the way that the global markets are tipping around like a annoying drunk after a bad party and many countries going through a change of government at the same time.
What will be around the corner? Will demand for products and services take a dive? Or will organisation realise that like never before they need to get control of the information asset that they own?
On area that always seems to have value is getting paper and getting that part of the digital food chain under control. You might call this old fashion imaging, but hey if you put in some business process with this as well you start to see some beneficial value if planned and managed correctly.
Making the paper digital and streamlining the capture and delivery process has a significant benefit to the business and the lives of the workers that struggle with the "way that is has always been done around here" current processes. An interesting article that I read in the AIIM Infonomics magazine was one about Horry County, S.C and the journey they took to go digital. This included not only the capture and digitisation of the paper, but also integration to legacy systems through the use of "application enabler" think advanced "screen scraping" here. To get a look at the article it is available through subscription to the Infonomics magazine.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Transmision resumes - lets get digital
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Obsess or Obese?
Bit of a left field blog today, but I guess that is why I have the rider at the top of blog roll. Coffee is loosely related to ECM, especially on the long night proposal churn.
So, at the local supermarket they have built out a counter in the foyer that will soon open as a cafe bar. Great, except the name is "Obsess Coffee" pretty innocuous, except that my eyes and brain is having mild dyslexia every time I go in the supermarket, all I can see as I flash past is "Obese Coffee".
Will this coffee make me fat? maybe I am too fat already. For some strange reason although I read obsess my brain turns up with obese. I think that it has something to do with the black letters on a dark wood background that might not be helping me here.
Sometimes our ECM implementations get a little like the coffee bar as when they have gone all obese, but we seem to be obsessed with them. We love them because we created them but if not connected to the business drivers and business outcomes they quickly become obese repositories for information flab, created from the content rush that comes with initial enthusiasm and not long term information lifestyle change.
Recently we have been dealing with customer that still want to go direct to technology and it hard going at times to hold the line and ensure that we are advocating the right approach. To make sure that we are treating this as a business project not just a technology project.
Well I better go work on that spelling and get my brain obsessed!
Friday, August 29, 2008
Oh, baby, baby 2.0 me one more time !
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And just today in a channel magazine "box moving 2.0" (it has to do with selling hardware, OK), come on give me a break ! how about Kids 2.0 well actually I'm at 5.0 so there.
It's great to get new buzz and hype in the industry and life in general but it sort of feels a little like the latest chocolate bar advert at times, same stuff new wrapper. How about Life 2.0 (sorry it's already there as I found out today) or Hairdo 2.0, Marriage 2.0, oops that is already so yesterday.
2.0 is not something new like we have all of a sudden had an epiphany. but isn't it more like a gradual realisation that with the new technology and more cost effective ways of doing things we are able to create and deliver solutions that are different and new. Then marketing gets in the way and wants to label and package it all up. Consultant see and opportunity for new service line 2.0 consulting fees. Maybe I need to blog 2.0?
