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5 Reasons Your Files and Records are ROT(ting)

Gimmal

Redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) information likely dominates your content stores. We collect data from organizations every day to understand why information governance problems exist, and there are generally five reason your files are ROT(ting). Five Reasons Your Files are ROT(ting) 1.

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Information Governance Pressure Points – 3 Common Areas of Failure

AIIM

This new business environment has led to governance failures at three key pressure points: Information “entry points”. Governance Pressure Point 1 - Information “Entry Points”. Organizations that have adapted their information management strategies to the cloud and mobile need to extend their governance strategies as well.

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Our Data Governance Is Broken. Let’s Reinvent It.

John Battelle's Searchblog

My current work is split between two projects: One has to do with data governance, the other political media. Big data, data breaches, data mining, data science…Today, we’re all about the data. And second… Governance. But Governance? Data Governance.

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4 Ways to Determine ROI around Data Cleanup

Everteam

You need to show them not only why you need to perform a data cleanup, but prove the ROI behind it. To help you out, here are four ways you can pull together the numbers to determine the ROI from cleaning out redundant, duplicate and trivial information (ROT). If it’s ROT, wouldn’t it make more sense to get rid of it completely?

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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

For example, re-packing corporate records can help weave a narrative to promote a brand, enhance corporate social responsibility outreach programs, improve employee loyalty, enhance diversity, equality and inclusion training, and highlight environment, social and governance initiatives. Content Marketing Platforms (CMP). Retrieved April 2021.

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Manage Your Dark Content and Increase Compliance

Everteam

Managing dark content (or dark data – you decide which term works best for you) was the topic of our recent webinar and our VP of North America and resident expert on all things related to information governance, Ken Lownie, shared some insights into the challenge and how you can solve it. Why Is Dark Content a Problem?

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Part 3: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about effecting risk management and change management?

ARMA International

Take the example of the pandemic: only some governments engaged pandemic experts to develop actions plans. The end state is to use DT to optimize the use of resources, increase ROI, and improve governance, strategic risk management, and compliance, as illustrated by the five levels in Figure 3. Figure 3: Digital capability levels.