| The most neglected area of business management is | | | | management tool they have ever had. Every |
| what happens to the information the business | | | | business can use the structure to promote: |
| creates, collects, uses and stores. Everything is left | | | | - teamwork through sharing information and |
| to chance and nobody sees this as a whole of | | | | resources; |
| business responsibility. This is not about the technical | | | | - skills development through greater access to |
| aspects of communications or the equipment to | | | | training; |
| make the business work now and in the future. It is | | | | - greater accountability including file and folder |
| about managing the business by managing information | | | | management; |
| content. | | | | - cost cutting through less duplication of information |
| Instead of looking to the computer industry for | | | | and effort; |
| answers to questions that have never really been | | | | - security of content through context organization. |
| formulated over decades, any and every business | | | | This is all about context organization of business |
| must take the opportunity to look at: | | | | information. It is not about context labeling as used in |
| - what is does and how it can do it better with more | | | | current document and knowledge management |
| information; | | | | systems. |
| - where it is failing in fully utilizing its business | | | | Every business can ask to have the business |
| information assets; | | | | information structure they want. That they don't ask |
| - what it would want to have in place to maximize its: | | | | is just about recognizing the importance and value of |
| - resources of all types in all media; | | | | context as a real location. Context labels are about |
| - training materials, programs and opportunities; | | | | virtual location. |
| - across-the-board usage of business knowledge; | | | | Content in context location is about: |
| - policy to compliance transfer. | | | | - policy in context; |
| And this is not about spending money on software, | | | | - training in context; |
| systems or equipment. It is about spending time on | | | | - resources in context; |
| reviewing what can be done and asking whether it is | | | | - policy and compliance in context; |
| being done. | | | | - folder and file management in context; |
| One example of business information management | | | | - teamwork support through context. |
| bad practice is that most businesses have bits of | | | | There are ten stages to developing a business |
| policy here and there that is: | | | | focused in-context business information management |
| - not official; | | | | process that will last a business forever. |
| - unwritten; | | | | When businesses get to see the huge benefits in this |
| - hidden; | | | | kind of best practice, every computer will be set up |
| - outdated; | | | | to get started right away on the right structure for |
| - ambiguous. | | | | each individual business. |
| Many businesses think that policy is something other | | | | In the meantime, any business can get started and |
| than business information and many will only see | | | | the Ten Steps to Best Business will provide the |
| what is missing when something bad happens. | | | | formula for success. You can read about this, |
| Nothing in any of the current systems businesses | | | | download a number of publications and access |
| large and small are likely to be currently using to | | | | ebooks on the website |
| manage business information will adequately deal with | | | | You owe it to your business to investigate your |
| policy because they can't deal with policy deficiencies. | | | | options for best practice and the best time to do |
| Every business can access the kind of business | | | | that is now. |
| information structure that will prove to be the best | | | | |