REPORT – BEP breakfast briefing, Tuesday 29th March
The latest BEP breakfast session took place on Tuesday 29th March and was a huge success. The theme was information governance and the speakers and topics were as follows:
Information Governance – Marc Fresko
Marc is a leading consultant and ‘thought leader’ in Information Management. He has worked and advised clients in countries around the world, in various sectors and is currently working in The Netherlands, Switzerland and Hong Kong. His particular claim to fame is that he designed and led the MoReq and Moreq2 projects; MoReq2 has become a de-facto standard in electronic records management, used in many countries and already translated into about a dozen languages including many European languages, Russian and Korean.
Marc’s talk covered the following questions; what do we mean by information governance? what can happen without information governance? what are some of the benefits of information governance? are they tangible? and what does it take to implement an information governance framework successfully?
RSD GLASS – Steve Thompson
Event sponsors RSD of Switzerland provided an introduction to their GLASS product. GLASS enables the central management of retention policy and metadata, while supporting enforcement of information governance policy across business functions, locations, and information repositories.
Steve Thompson spoke about why the GLASS solution has been selected by Peugeot-Citroën as their new information governance platform and explained why it has been chosen for in-depth trials at two leading international banks.
Information Lifecycle Management – George Cunningham
George is the President of Pelligroup, and is considered a leading authority on global records and information management, information management compliance and related records retention strategies.
George spoke about some of the challenges we face in today’s world of information management, governance and compliance and the changes we have seen in the last fifteen or twenty years.
George discussed the fact that most organizations have not made the changes necessary to deal with many of the emerging issues, and how we find our organizations at risk in ways that simply were not particularly significant in the past.
Information Management and Content Analysis – Reynold Leming
Reynold Leming has worked in document and records management since 1995 and has a wealth of private and public sector experience in developing both policy frameworks and strategies for content management technology.
Reynold spoke about the ever increasing amount of information we manage and the difficulties in analysing and classifying our business content, he described some the technologies available for analysis of unstructured and semi-structured data and where they fit into the information governance puzzle.
The next breakfast session is planned for late summer and the theme is provisionally business content analytics, application of policy and data storage strategy.
Again, places will be limited and are expected to fill up fast. If you would like to attend please send an e-mail to joseph.bond@bepsystems.co.uk