Attention Management

Why can’t we all be briefed like the President?

It started with a simple question posed by a senior executive during a staff meeting. Blindsided a couple of times in the course of a month by information related to market events that should have been known to the team, the exec in frustration…

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T.S. Eliot, Choruses from “The Rock”. 1934.

This line from T.S. Eliot’s The Rock, seems to perfectly frame the question facing many organizations. We live in an…

Dear Marketers Can We Please Use the Term “Big Content”

Marketing always gets the good stuff. Despite that, I would like to officially request that the rest of us get to use the term “Big Content”. I am not claiming originality here but I started using the term Big Content a few years ago…

AIIM’s The State of Intelligent Information Management — Just beginning

In mid-May AIIM released a study authored by John Mancini titled The State of Intelligent Information Management. It’s a thoughtful perspective on the intersection of traditional content management and the…

Workstream collaboration — what is the role of traditional content?

The adoption of workstream tools is impressive. Slack alone has grown at a rate that makes it the fastest growing business application to-date. Microsoft Teams and the many other viable workstream tools are…

“Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T.S. Eliot, Choruses from “The Rock”. 1934.

This line from T.S. Eliot’s The Rock, seems to perfectly frame the question facing many organizations. We live in…

Relevancy — the killer app

In his book The New Know: Innovation Powered by Analytics, Thornton May explores the consequences of living and and business in the era of information abundance. His perspective is summarized in pdf of of the first chapter.