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"The Process of Becoming": The Future of Information Professionals

If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, then you don’t know what you’re doing. - W. Edward Deming

In a highly insightful and thought-provoking blog post, Bonnie Cheuk – Director of Knowledge Sharing & Collaboration at Citi – asks: what is the future of information professionals? In her explanation, she says:

Personally, I think the major shift is not about technology, it is how we redefine information from “static, objective” information that we can manage as objects to “communicative” information whereby information is a “process of becoming.”

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Information Management Evolution 2013

Explore ways to successfully align information services with high priority business needs, and hear first hand how others have realized the value of cross-departmental collaboration in a move towards a proactive and efficient future of information management in the upcoming conference "Information Management Evolution."

This one-day conference will be held on April 25, 2013, at the Sentry Centers in NYC.

Click here for conference agenda and speakers. Register by January 25th and receive a 20% discount off your registration!

Infographics: Metrics & Collaboration

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When utilizing metrics, take care to make sure you are choosing the right numbers to measure! Measuring the wrong metrics could seriously affect your company's progress. Take a look at these Six Faults of Counterproductive Metrics [infographic].

The web has done nothing short of revolutionizing the concept of communication. This is especially evident in how businesses work together in the ever-transforming digital age. Here's a look at what collaboration means and how it has evolved in the enterprise: Dare to Share: A New Culture Of Collaboration In The Enterprise [infographic].

Management Metrics--Strangers to Law Firms

To effectively guide a firm toward a successful strategy, management requires a suite of leading indicators that can be used as triggers to indicate where attention must be focused to successfully deliver results that will result in positive lagging indicators.

As with any selection or design of a metric, care must be taken to choose those metrics that are true indicators of success or potential failure. Having too many metrics is also highly damaging as they create noise that obscures the ones that really matter.

Metrics allow departments to document and display progress to senior management who may not be aware of the daily activities being performed by a department. This is especially useful when making a case for additional funding during the budget cycle... Keep Reading.

"Information Is Food"

How do we consume data? In this Ted Talk, technologist JP Rangaswami muses on our relationship to information, and offers a surprising and sharp insight: we treat it like food.