Turn Chaos into Order.
Reduce Business Risk.

Information is a business asset. Do you treat it as one?

If you fail to recognise that there is tangible financial value in your data, information and knowledge, then you are leaving money on the table. Or worse, exposing your business to increased risk and lower productivity.

Information is used by everyone, to make every decision that drives your business forward. But if your information is poor quality and you can’t access, find, create and share information in a timely and secure manner then that value is lost.

This is basic stuff. Right information to the right people at the right time. How hard can that be? According to our research 20% of your time each day is wasted due to poor information quality and  management. How many employees do you have wasting this time and what is the impact on the business? You do the maths!

 

Information chaos = Increased business risk.

The impact on an organisation with disorganised poor quality information, which lacks a single source of truth, and is poorly managed, can be enormous.

Every week there are news headlines that most CEOs and Board members fear due to poor quality and governance of information. At the heart of it all, is the need for better business and information governance and a shift towards treating information as an asset of value, rather than something we just take for granted.

Software is not a silver bullet and will not solve the problem

Most organisations believe the management of information is a job for IT.

Most organisations believe that implementing a software solution will create a perfectly organised information environment for us to work in.

Most organisations have spent thousands of dollars on software that has failed to deliver what it promised.

The garbage in, garbage out rule applies here. If you want your organisation (and its software) to function optimally you need to understand what information is of value to the business, who should have access to it and then manage it effectively.

3 Key requirements for creating valuable information assets and minimising risk.

  1. Identify and document the data, information and knowledge assets that are vital to the operation of the business and evaluate its quality. If the quality is poor fix it!
  2. Implement proper governance and management of information assets.
  3. Educate and change behaviour for everyone who creates and uses information assets.

Time to get your house in order.

Experience Matters can help.

  • We are passionate about aligning an organisation’s Information Assets with its business goals.
  • We identify, plan, manage and create data, information and knowledge assets that solve business problems and drive measurable business benefit.
  • Together we can build a foundation from which you can transform your data, information and knowledge into a valuable asset.

It is easy to take information management for granted and leave it up to every individual in your organisation to work it out for themselves. But this is like death by a thousand cuts.

Take our quiz below and see how well you manage your own information. You might be surprised at the result!

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How well do you manage your own information?

Take the quiz and find out.

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What our clients say

James has been a thought leader and pioneer in the field of information and knowledge management for many years, working across many industries and publishing papers on why nothing else matters unless you get control of your organisation's most important asset, it's information.

Michael Veasey - CEO, Minter Ellison, Adelaide, Australia

I was thrilled to see your paper as I find the research and ideas to be tremendous ... Information should be a recognized asset class and organizations’ failure to [manage it] has had a detrimental effect on the way information is accumulated, administered and applied – and ultimately on corporate performance ... your work is ground-breaking.

Doug Laney - Gartner, Chicago, USA

Mike Orzen & Associates is proud to be associated with this research as we consider it to be great work of the utmost importance. The research findings are ... highly relevant to executives interested in business improvement ... Experience Matters' identification of the benefits of information asset management is testament to their global thought leadership and practice.

Mike Orzen - Mike Orzen & Associates, Portland, USA

I do believe that your research has documented the greatest single barrier to productivity in the 21st Century economy and nobody knows about it.

Aquatic Informatics - Vancouver, Canada

Having done the preparation work in specifying what was required, the Experience Matters team understood our needs as a corporate organisation. They identified issues with products early that could have become showstoppers later down the track. They were able to lift the hood on the vendor presentations and weed out those not able to meet our particular requirements.

Joy Horton - Oil Search, Sydney, Australia

Experience Matters delivered above and beyond the call of duty on a critical project at Santos. Their motto is not to have a dissatisfied customer. Based on my personal experience I can see how they have been able to successfully deliver on this motto time and again.

Karen Bard - CIO, Santos, Adelaide, Australia

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Would you like to maximise the value of your information assets and reduce business risk?

This is not an area that is widely understood, so we are happy to help educate.

Contact us to find out what good information management should look like for your business.

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