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Information Management is gaining support as organisations look for new ways to leverage existing resources to increase productivity in lean times.  Information management has the potential to fulfill this growing need and now is the opportunity to demonstrate the value of IM for increasing efficiency.

This summit is designed to equip you with the insight and skills necessary to increase the organisational value of Information Management.  By bringing together a range of case studies together with leading subject matter experts, this summit is a complete forum for taking your work to the next level.

You will learn from first hand experiences how to:
• Introduce an organisation wide governance model
• Deploy SharePoint across a geographically separated organisation for improved knowledge management and collaboration
• Consolidate IM infrastructure with the latest technology
• Utilise social computing tools to enable greater user engagement and collaboration
• Extract value from compiled information with Application Programming Interfaces
• Undertake a joint record management initiative involving multiple organisations

Plus, two-half day workshops are on offer on the 11th of March
Workshop A:  Using Taxonomy to Connect Information:  A Strategic Approach to Information Design
• Setting an information governance structure
• Developing a best practice taxonomy
• Implementing a taxonomy successfully
• Structuring data and standardising meta data efficiently

Workshop B:  Getting It Off the Ground- Tips and Techniques to Ensure Your New Information Management Software and Processes Get Implemented Successfully
• Using change management techniques to lead a successful implementation of technology or processes
• Communication strategies to support the change process
• Measuring uptake success
• Maintaining the change to ensure it becomes embedded in the organisation

SAVE $300 by taking advantage of our Early Bird Special by registering and paying before the 26th of January, 2010.

Take this opportunity to recharge your professional batteries and engage with peers and leading experts in this comprehensive and interactive forum.

Workshops

9am – 12.30pm
Workshop A:  Applying Information Architecture Taxonomies and Structure to Your Data to Increase its Usefulness and Value
Information which is currently held and being collecting by organisations contains significant value if it is properly extracted and findable.  Before anything significant can really be accomplished the information must be ordered and structured to allow for efficient location of necessary information and for applications to utilise the data and deliver additional benefits.  This workshop will provide you with guidance and examples that will take you through taxonomy models and approaches to structuring data.  The workshop will also outline governance policies related to Information management.
• Should you redesign or enhance your existing information architecture
• How to approach the change management of information management
• Evaluating your situation to determine if a taxonomy or folksonomy paradigm is more appropriate
• Approaches to standardising meta data across the organization
• Approaches to findability of structured and unstructured data
• Standardising meta data across the organisation
• Maintaining the structure over time with review and governance
Chandima Kulathilake, Director, KNOWLEDGE CUE

1.30pm – 5pm
Workshop B:  
Getting It Off The Ground – Tips and Techniques to Ensure Your New Information Management Software and Processes Get Implemented Successfully
Best practice Information Management practices and technologies are rendered useless if they are not used properly.  This requires both education around how to use, and engagement with stakeholders and users about why these new ‘tools’ should, or must, be used.  Change management and internal communication disciplines offer proven tools for achieving both of these objectives.  From this workshop you will not only learn about change management and communication tools and strategies, but how to put these together in an overarching strategy, to introduce and embed your change project.
• Understanding how people respond to change in the workplace
• What can go wrong when introducing change, and proven techniques to mitigate this
• How to establish effective stakeholder communication to support the change process
• How to get the most out of your change management steering group & project team
• Reporting and auditing results to measure uptake success
• Maintaining the change to ensure it become embedded within your organisation
Paul Rayner, Director, WORKING WORDS

An change management and communications specialist, Paul is one of a few people practising in this field with a background in strategic and operational change management, line management, human resources and communications.
Paul has held senior communications roles with Westpac and the Inland Revenue Department.  His human resources work includes time as Head of HR Services for Bank of New Zealand, GM Organisational Development for @Work Insurance and consulting at London Business School.

Paul’s Information Management experiences including managing BNZ’s HRIS and workforce planning, leading Westpac’s IT Business Analysis capability, and project managing a range of information management (includes Data warehouse, electronic banking, and MIS solutions) change projects.

This eclectic background and experience gives Paul an edge in providing pragmatic advice and solutions that work.
Through his company Working Words (NZ) Ltd Paul provides change management and internal communications advice to a range of Australasian businesses and public sector organisations.

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