Continuing on with the catch-up work, here are a couple of links to presentations I gave late last year.
The first was to the first ever (and hopefully first annual) AIIM Calgary Chapter Conference, which was a huge success. Over 150 people attended the event and there were nearly a dozen vendors represented in the vendor showcase. A big thank you goes out to the committee which was ably led by Kit Bright and Shelly DiGiovanni. Great work you two!
The impact that SharePoint will have (and has already had) on the ECM landscape continues to be a hot topic and this was the subject of my presentation. SharePoint and the Future of ECM led to a lively discussion about whether Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 can really be considered an ECM tool. In a nutshell, my take on this question is:
1) SharePoint is a big deal;
2) SharePoint really is an ECM application;
3) There is room for everyone: Traditional ECM applications will survive and thrive.
Check out the presentation and please let me know your take on this issue.
The second presentation was to a group of senior managers from small to mid-sized companies. This group gathers regularly as part of the Renaissance Executive Forums program. We discussed the issues surrounding the management of knowledge in smaller organizations and had a great discussion about both traditional ECM tools and the use of emerging ‘Enterprise 2.0′ apps like Facebook.
You can find the presentation here. I hope you find it interesting and again I’d appreciate your feedback.
Hi,
Read your blog-spot with interest. I also read your presentation, and I agree with you that MOSS probably need to be implemented differently that other mainstream ECM systems. My opinion is also when implementing ECM the project group need to focus on value propositions, business processes and the organisation (change management).
My point of view is that before any project start-up there should be: a leverage of expectation, a value proposition (goals) and a business case that is in line with the organisations overall strategy.
And the root to unsuccessful projects is that they often are technology driven with a limited tactical view (this will solve my problem).
All the best
ER
Comment by Eirik Rasmussen — January 24, 2008 @ 6:27 am
Hi Eirik,
Thanks for your comments. I agree that goal #1 of an ECM implementation (or any technology deployment) must be to understand the desired outcomes and the problems the project has set out to solve. Unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to be the case in many ECM projects. I can’t say why exactly, but I suspect that it has something to do with the perception of complexity for content management. I have observed many organizations that fail at ECM because they assume that it shouldn’t be too hard to migrate a few documents from shared drives into a somewhat more structured system. This is certainly true of traditional ECM systems and I would suggest it is largely true of SharePoint as well (despite SharePoint’s user-friendly reputation).
Thanks again for your comment. You’ve got me thinking on this topic and it feels like something that deserves a bit more airtime, so watch this space for a future post about managing complexity in ECM implementations.
Good luck.
G.
P.S. Great blog…I’ve added it to my blogroll
Comment by Greg Clark — January 24, 2008 @ 11:43 pm