If you are like most organizations, the answer is "not so good."
When we asked end users to evaluate their effectiveness in management electronic information on a scale from 1 ("terrible") to 10 ("excellent"), not too surprisingly there is a lot of concern out there.
Over 50% of organizations would give themselves a grade of 5 or less -- hardly a ringing endorsement of the state of information management.
Some of this is due to increased awareness -- in the past, organizations simply weren't that aware of how bad their "digital landfill" had become. Even small and mid sized organizations are now realizing that their are tangible costs -- process costs, risk-related costs, litigation costs, and lost productivity -- from information management systems that are often no more than a set of shared drives with randomly named and unmanaged folders and files. Files with names like r:/executive/presentations/2008/johns stuff. You get the idea.
For more information on the state of information management in organizations, check out our annual state of the industry survey results -- the download is free -- at THIS LINK.
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