Healthcheck
Good information management supports three objectives:
1. operational efficiency – reducing the cost of information management and operational losses due to poor information management
2. operational effectiveness – increasing the exploitation and impact of the information itself
3. compliance – with an ever increasing body of regulation and statutory requirements
Realistically, there is often a significant gap between how an organization would like to be managing its information and how it does manage it. All to often, one of the three objectives is achieved at the cost of the others. Furthermore, in the area of compliance, few organizations which are meeting their requirements, are getting the operational benefits of doing so.
Meeting all three objectives is not easy. Many initiatives aimed at improving information management have run into trouble or failed to deliver the expected business benefits – for the lack of experience, specialist knowledge and specific expertise.
Assessing the state of play
Bramble.cc can assist your organization first of all by independently assessing what the true issues and their dependencies are. We can:
- assess current information management practices against business objectives
- assess adherence to best practice, for example BIP0008 – Code of practice for legal admissibility and evidential weight of information communicated electronically or, for the public sector, the recently published Minimum Mandatory Measures
- assess your current information management initiatives to see if they are on course to succeed and deliver the expected business benefits.
Roadmap for the future
- What is the best way ahead?
- What is the right mix of technologies and business process?
- Who has to what, and by when?
Solutions to information management problems span an enormous number of issues, which need to be brought together and divided into manageable pieces for actual progress to be made. Critically, the scope of the solution needs to be expressed not only in terms of any technology introduced, but also in terms of the people, information and process change that is required.
Bramble.cc can turn its experience of dozens of previous, relevant situations to the clear planning of an approach specific to your organization. This will be expressed visually – in diagrams, as well as words – to make it clear to senior managers and other lay people what will be required of them and others and over what time-scale.