Digital Asset Management

Is the Tipping Point REALLY Toast – Do Influencers… – Lithosphere Community. Last week, I’ve offer up some perspectives on the topic of empowerment vs. influence. But I deliberately steered clear of the discussion on whether influencers exist (if you remember, that was the last argument in favor of empowerment over influence). From the discussions that [...]

Google launches Gmail Priority Inbox

David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut — and it may just change the way we see the world. http://www.ted.com/talks/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization.html

Business Plans Are Dead, Long Live Business Plans. Let’s face it – the traditional business plan as we know it (or as we knewit) is slowly slowly going away. Or is it? Startups and small businesses move at such lightning pace these days that a static document quickly becomes outdated, but the principals and lessons involved [...]

Utopia, Inc.: iData – Part 2 “How Data Creates Business Value”. The content in iTunes® is made up of binary bits and bytes – we like to call this data. It’s arranged in a certain way we like to call it music (complex data). These “objects” have certain characteristics or attributes, we like to capture [...]

Stewart Lynch demo of OT social workplace for law firms

Image by wallyg via Flickr Dashboard Insight – How SaaS Has Changed The BI Landscape. by Lyndsay Wise, President, WiseAnalytics Until recently, traditional business intelligence applications led the way for companies  looking to apply analytics within their organizations. Businesses looking for alternatives to large data warehousing and BI infrastructures were hard pressed to find alternatives [...]

The logic of document capture | Capture Blogs. Establish a well thought-out taxonomy Taxonomy is defined as classifying organisms into groups based on similarities.  Why is taxonomy relevant for document capture?  For several reasons, including security, quicker access to information and retention policies.  So, if you work backwards in the methodology of how and what, technology [...]

Business failing to benefit from BI advancements. Data arrive on a daily, hourly and real-time basis and businesses today are struggling more than ever to use these efficiently. Not only are data volumes increasing almost exponentially, but they are no longer constrained to words and figures, but include images, sound and video from an array [...]

By Scott Brown In the second part of Scott Brown’s real life case studies on using, reusing, and repurposing information we move into the real Bermuda Triangle. Where exactly does the information go that we, as professionals, provide for our clients/users? What ‘use’ do they make of it? We all need to show value in [...]