Information Revolution

Information asset registers

Why does Michael get a sinking feeling when people talk about information asset registers?
What are they for?
What's worse, boiling the ocean or having to retrofit the information you didn't collect?
Could tools help us?
And how many times can we fit the word "catalytic" into one episode?
 
With your hosts:
Karl Melrose
Judi Vernau
Michael Upton
 
A few notes:
Treesize gets a mention: it's a piece of software for analysing the content of drives based on file properties.
The episode with Doug Laney: https://youtu.be/0RzX4Dbz2_Y
Harradine reports: https://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/about-us/accountability-and-reporting/harradine-reports

Domain modelling

Why limit yourself to functional classification?
How could you think describe the whole domain of what your organisation cares about?
... and why would you do that?
 
Judi mentions some work on an all-of-government ontology, link here: All-of-government ontology options paper – Archives New Zealand
 
With your hosts:
Karl Melrose
Judi Vernau
Michael Upton

What we've learnt about valuing information

In this episode we reflect on the goodies we've gleaned since last November, when we first brought valuing information into focus. If you haven't gone back through the previous episodes, we've had great guests with a lot of insights! Today we pull out some highlights and ruminate on integrating lessons into practice.
With your hosts:
Karl Melrose
Judi Vernau
Michael Upton

Managing data as an asset with Doug Laney

We were thrilled to have Chicago-based innovation fellow, data management enthusiast, and author Doug Laney on the Information Revolution podcast. He touches on the concepts of his books, Infonomics and Data Juice, and drops all kinds of good oil (refined or otherwise) on how to value and make more from the data, information, knowledge and wisdom your organisation holds (a little in-joke there).
With your hosts:
Karl Melrose
Judi Vernau
Michael Upton
Doug rounds out a series of guests we've had on now thinking about valuation, if you're interested look back on previous episodes with James Price and Matt Moore.
Learn more about Doug at his site: https://www.douglasblaney.com/

Data and docs - part 2 with Liz Wilson

Today's episode continues a conversation with Liz Wilson about data, documents, and the need for changes of practice to avoid data management cutting records management's lunch. Oh, and the nature of memory!
With your hosts:
Karl Melrose
Judi Vernau
Michael Upton

Data and docs - part 1 with Liz Wilson

Our first episode of 2024! We're back after a bit of a break, with the first part of a conversation with Liz Wilson about data, documents, (not) managing the container and some ruminating on how financial institutions work with information.
With your hosts:
Karl Melrose
Judi Vernau
Michael Upton

Value and your exec - part 2 with Matt Moore

Our last episode of 2023 continues the conversation with Matt Moore, talking about valuing something vs. pricing it, and how to make information assets tangible, visible, and tractable.
Matt Moore originally trained as a librarian. He spent years in the world of knowledge management and has also worked in learning and development, internal communications, marketing, sales operations, sales, consulting, IT management, project management, and process improvement. He’s done a lot of stuff - maybe some of it quite well!
Some links to things and people we mention:
Doug Laney https://www.douglasblaney.com/
DIKAR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_management#Positioning_information_management_in_the_bigger_picture
Lean methodology term "Genchi genbutsu" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genchi_Genbutsu
Aswath Damodaran https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/%7Eadamodar/
With your hosts:
Karl Melrose
Judi Vernau
Michael Upton

Value and your exec - part 1 with Matt Moore

Continuing the theme of information valuation, we had Matt Moore join us to take us back to some fundamental questions of how organisations determine value and make decisions - what they do and what they say they do.
Matt Moore originally trained as a librarian. He spent years in the world of knowledge management and has also worked in learning and development, internal communications, marketing, sales operations, sales, consulting, IT management, project management, and process improvement. He’s done a lot stuff - maybe some of it quite well!
We had such a good conversation we kept recording and will publish the second half in another couple of weeks.
With your hosts:
Karl Melrose
Judi Vernau
Michael Upton

Valuing information assets with James Price

Last episode the Information Revolution hosts talked information valuation. This time we have James Price from Experience Matters sharing results of his research and compelling stories about valuing information, knowledge and data.
Some relevant links:
The first piece of research James refers to: https://www.experiencematters.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Barriers-to-the-Effective-Deployment-of-Information-Assets.-An-Executive-Management-Perspective.pdf
The Holistic Information Asset Management Maturity Model: https://www.experiencematters.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Information-Asset-Maturity-Model-2021.pdf
Experience Matters' website: https://www.experiencematters.com.au/
Ocean Tomo’s latest study on the value of intangible assets. https://oceantomo.com/intangible-asset-market-value-study/
Laura Sebastian-Coleman gets a mention, here is DAMA’s DMBoK: https://technicspub.com/dmbok2/
With your hosts:
Karl Melrose
Judi Vernau
Michael Upton

Information valuation

Karl kicks off the conversation about how we could get the right level of investment in managing information by valuing information assets beyond the old high, medium, low. And we announce a guest who has thought much more about this than any of us!
With your hosts:
Karl Melrose
Judi Vernau (Metataxis NZ)
Michael Upton (Metataxis NZ)