If you work in a large enough library, you’ll know that digitising historic books is rarely just a capture job. By the time a project reaches imaging, many of the most important decisions should already have been made. For museums, libraries, and other custodians, the challenge is not how to create digital copies, that’s simple…
Businesses have been encouraged to treat information as something that can move freely for years. Companies in the U.K. engage creative agencies in India, international companies have had outsourced functions for decades. As web infrastructure has grown in tandem (and as a driver); documents are now shared instantly, teams collaborate across time zones, and a…
If you’re a DPO, CIO, IT Director or involved in compliance of any kind, you’ll know that managing information is getting harder, expectations around accuracy have never been higher and the consequences of mistakes are now potentially crippling. To add to the difficulty, different regions impose different laws and new AI tools generate forms of…
Every organisation stores more data than it needs. Some of it is essential, some of it is required by regulation, and much of it simply lingers, duplicated, outdated or trivial. This redundant, obsolete, and trivial information, often called ROT data, is quietly costing businesses money every year. The estimates in this article are hypothetical, based…
This is the second of two articles on ROT. In part one, we showed how ROT quietly sabotages sustainability targets. In Part Two we focus on the compliance costs. Both articles are steppingstones toward our guide, From ROT to ROI, which reframes ROT not just as a liability, but as an opportunity for measurable business…
Every organisation is paying to store and protect information it doesn’t need. Redundant, obsolete, and trivial ROT data hides in boxes, file shares, cloud platforms, and legacy archives, driving up costs, slowing productivity, and increasing compliance risk. In this guide, we’ll show you how to: Identify and eliminate ROT across physical and digital holdings Align…
Redundant, obsolete and trivial information (ROT) is a persistent issue and it has received significant attention in the press, mostly in terms of the compliance risks it poses, but what about the environmental cost? Cheaper and more accessible cloud storage, while enormously convenient for business, has amplified the environmental impact. The simple fact is that…
The vision of a paperless office has captivated journalists and businesses for decades. In other words: we’ve been having this discussion for a very long time and while digital predominates now, paper records are still very much a mainstay. The question arises: What makes the past decade any different? Early Visions vs. Reality The concept…
In two previous posts, we have already discussed how having an electronic content management system in place has the power to transform HR functions, bringing them together under one umbrella and using automation to simplify processes. But which functions benefit most and where should you start? Part One of our series looked at the birth…
Continuing our look at the lifecycle of HR data and how digital solutions can make life simpler. We have already discussed how having an electronic content management system in place has the power to transform HR functions, bringing them together under one umbrella and using automation to simplify processes. But which functions benefit most and…