Information Management

“Don’t call it BI” begins my new column on Information Management

September 30, 2011

“Don’t bother me with petty distinctions between BI, analytics and decision support. I want meaning, not tools for their own sake – and here I see glimmers.” Read it here. Twenty tweets the first day!

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Don’t weep for IT

March 29, 2011

Like some about-to-be-deposed Middle East dictators, some IT people fear the barbarians at the door that Dave Wells hints at. In a recent interview with Information Management editorial director Jim Ericson, Dave talked about the “storm” about to overwhelm IT departments. Then there are the reactions to that.

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Meet the “metador”

October 14, 2009

Information Management editorial director Jim Ericson writes about the modern corporate librarian, the “metador.” He talked to that term’s creator, Bob Boiko. Boiko says the people he trains or identifies are not usually tech-savvy people, nor do they seek to be. He sees them as natively talented indexers or organizers who might not be called [...]

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