My Year as an IBM Information Management Champion (Day 30)

June 8, 2013 — Leave a comment
The Lone Piper

The Lone Piper

It has been just a month now since I was selected by IBM from a broad group of nominations to become a Champion for Information Management. From what I have learned there are <200 of us worldwide (smaller than the average InfoSphere sales team from IBM that I see call on some of my clients!). There are a number of categories for IBM Champions (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/champion/) but perhaps I am a bit biased when I say that Information Management seems to one of the broadest and perhaps most difficult to speak to in a succinct fashion. What is Information Management anyways?

In a world where everything has been reduced to buzz words and catch phrases the intrinsic meaning of a subject like Information Management is lost amongst the chatter IMO. I like to define it as “The Discipline and Science of Managing Information over its entire lifecycle and treating it as an Asset to be leveraged by the entire Enterprise in which to create sustainable sources of Competitive Advantage”. There are many tomes written on Enterprise Information Management and most have a similar view to mine.

However, given the myopic focus on Big Data and the non-stop hype as to its virtues and disruptive capabilities I often feel like this Lone Piper who I came across this last week in Union Square (San Francisco). My music (i.e. message) may be well liked once you hear it, but it can be easily be lost in the din of hype (or traffic) around it.

I learned today that my preso for IOD 2013 was not selected so I can see that my role of Champion has limited clout. I was looking forward to espousing my belief that “Leveraging Information Governance can Achieve Strategic Business Outcomes”. I guess that I will have to shop around for another forum in which to “play my music”.

I am looking forward to seeing many of you later this month at the DGIQ Conference in San Diego. It is going to be the largest ever and no doubt most interesting as the maturing and benefits of Information Governance are really starting to manifest for many enterprises.

Stay tuned for the next installment of “My Year and an IBM Information Management Champion”

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Key Themes for Information Governance Success: “Adapt, Leverage & Embed”. Adapt to meet the relevant needs of the Organization. Leverage key elements of the Organizations Culture to create opportunities. Embed yourself in every major undertaking within reach.

I am presenting at this year’s DGIQ with my client, SRP. Our presentation is on Wednesday, June 19th from 11:00 – 11:50. Stop by to hear a most interesting perspective on Information Governance Operationalization.

Title: Forget the Theory and What the so-called Experts have to say – How you can Operationalize Information Governance in your Enterprise 
Greg Whicker, Director, Business Service Management, Salt River Project
Madison Prince, Organizational Change Analyst, Salt River Project
Richard Lee, Managing Partner, IMECS, LLC

Overview: Far too many organizations are attempting to take a Prescriptive or Best Practices-based approach to operationalizing Info Gov in the enterprises. We will proffer that “The critical path to success is one that requires an Adaptive Model, which leverages the Governance Structure, Culture and Business Model of your Enterprise to create an environment where Info Governance is embraced by everyone based on the culture belief that that Information is an Asset (top down & bottoms up)”.

Key points we will emphasize during our presentation:

  • The entire organization must come to believe that “Information truly is an Asset”
  • Cultural Adoption based on the use of effective Communications and OCM Techniques is critical to success
  • Advocacy by Executive Leaders is essential to business buy-in and ownership
  • Information Governance Processes and Messaging must be “baked in” to every activity
  • Technology is not a critical enabler to success; Cultural Adoption is.

“Adapt, Leverag…

Posted on June 6, 2013 In DGIQ, Governance, Information Governance, Information Management
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Yesterday, I attended The Economist’s “Ideas Economy -Information Forum 2013” in San Francisco focused on “Finding Value in Big Data”.

It was an interesting event on many levels, but got off to a strange start when Ken Cukier (Economist, FT & Foreign Affairs “big data guy”) lambasted all of the NaySayers who are now poo-pooing “Big Data” as a “Big Nothing”. I have predicted this for some time given the unprecedented Hype and lack of any coherent definition (much less stable one) as to what it means, but now see this event as a watershed moment when the Big Data plot really started to spiral out of control. By the end of the day many of the panelists wondered why they were there and were taking major exception with all of the hype around them. I applaud this very much as now perhaps we can start to have an Adult discussion going forward on Information Management.

Stay tuned for further posts on this subject.

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My Year as an IBM Information Management Champion – Day 20+

May 30, 2013 — Leave a comment

My year on the IBM Champion Roller Coaster has started to pick up speed. I have been supporting the Big Data marketing teams with several activities recently. The two most visible are;

Big Data Bytes – May 31

May 31, 2013 2:00 PM ET

Big Data Bytes is a weekly videochat where we look at some of the hot articles, blog posts, and social chatter about topics related to big data. For Friday, May 31, our guests will be Richard Lee (@InfoMgmtExec) and Tom Deutsch (@thomasdeutsch). Richard has been a Management Consultant for more than 30 years and speaks at conferences around the world on key business issues related to Enterprise Information Management & Data Governance. Tom is big data program director at IBM and co-author of the popular books Understanding Big Data and Harness the Power of Big Data.

What the video chat LIVE on ibmbigdatahub.com/BigDataBytes

Follow and join in on Twitter using hashtag #BigDataBytes

I am looking forward to my chat with Tom Deutsch tomorrow (Friday)

 

IBM Big Data Hub (a Google+ Forum/Hangout)

https://plus.google.com/111782494410500764298/posts

I have a conversation with on the topic of “Operations Analysis”

  • Christy Maver IBM Big Data Product Marketing Manager

If you have time check these out and let me know what you think.

Stay tuned for my next installment where I write about my First 30-days as an IBM Champion

PS – Follow #IBMChampions on Twitter for more frequent updates.

 

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My Year as an IBM Champion for Information Management – Day 7

May 16, 2013 — Leave a comment

I have early registered for IOD and am very much looking forward to meeting and interacting with all of  the other IBM Champions over the course of the event. IOD has become the Mecca for “All things InfoSphere” and this year will not be a disappointment. Hope to see all of you there this November.

Register Now at: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/2013-conference/

 

 

 

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Come hear SRP’s (Salt River Project) story at the upcoming DGIQ Conference in San Diego

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My Year as an IBM Champion for Information Management – Day 3

May 13, 2013 — Leave a comment

Late last week I learned that I have been selected as a 2013 IBM Information Management Champion (in addition to my current role of being a “Social Media Influencer”). It is a high honor for me to represent such a great program and to join an esteemed group of peers. Each of us brings a unique perspective to the disciplines of Information Management, Analytics & Information Governance which we use to help extol the benefits of the InfoSphere portfolio to our clients and colleagues. I very much look forward to strongly participating in the program and will be speaking at a number of events in the coming months in my capacity as a Champion as well as working on a daily basis to help bring insights and capabilities to clients working with various elements of the InfoSphere portfolio. I promise to use my Blog to highlight interesting Case Studies and Anecdotes over the coming year. Stay Tuned!

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IBM Champions Program

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One of the major enablers that IBM ‘s BLU offering provides via its In-Memory capability enablement to manage Predictive Model over their Lifecycle (Develop, Test, Deploy, Manage, Re-Test, Re-Deploy, etc.) in a single database using what I refer to as a “Memory Palace”.

“IBM’s BLU DB’s will allow Predictive Modelers to create their own “Memory Palaces” for tuning & testing models, algorithms, etc.”

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ZD Webinar Registration Site

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