Information | TroubleShooter

Information leakage - measures for preserving stakeholder confidence

The publication of U.S. government ‘cables’ by wikileaks has once again highlighted the problem of information leakage.

The frequency and scale of personal and commercial information leakage, through accidental loss and deliberate theft, has seriously weakened stakeholder confidence in the Information Governance capabilities of organizations, in both private and public sectors.

Such losses are often beyond the realms of inconvenience and embarrassment, carrying real risks to personal welfare, organizational integrity and National security.
Continue reading article »

Return on Integrity

return of the light by AlicePopkorn on flickr

Many of us have seen the acronym ROI, used in a business proposal to claim hoped-for return on investment. But I believe that the term ROI more accurately reflects quite a different measure: Return on Integrity.
Continue reading article »

database or sludgebase?

Getting rid of the datacentre

It’s time to move our thinking forwards, by getting rid of the datacentre concept as quickly as possible. We need to start building the next generation informationcentres. If we don’t, we will find ourselves choking on a surfeit of useless data while gasping desperately for the oxygen of vital information. Continue reading article »