I have been working for professional service firms since 1997 (nearly 9 years!), and I recall sitting in a meeting with the national board of a former employer – a national accounting firm – in 1997 when the topic of email came up. Most didn’t understand it, most thought it could be an expensive exercise …
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As discussed in my post of two days ago, I am uploading my presentation for the KM Forum to the blog. Clearly, however, a lot more of the presentation was more the interactive discussion the forum developed and contributed. I hope everyone who attended got good value from their time at the forum yesterday – …
Tomorrow night I am presenting to the Queensland Knowledge Management Forum on the role of Blogs and Wikis in Modern Organisations, as organised by Belinda Thompson: Session 2 / 2006 Date: Tuesday, 21 February 2006, 3.00 to 4.30pm Topics: Social Software: What does it mean for enterprise knowledge management systems? Where: HSBC Building, Level 18, …
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As you may have noticed by now, IT Governance is something of a professional passion for me (I also have two dogs but that’s not a professional passion!). ZDNet, who feature regularly in these pages, ran an article recently on ‘Do Boards get ICT?‘. I left a comment on the board about this topic, which I …
Two of the biggest potential problems these days for the security of the information maintained by businesses these days consists, in my mind at least, of two things: A:Â People walking in off the street and stealing your files (the ‘invisible man’ syndrome) B:Â Employees using USB sticks, iPods, and big websites to copy files …