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2024 Episode 83 – What do you do when your project sponsor leaves? Project sponsorship changes affect all aspects of your information governance program, including individual projects. What do you do now? How will you position yourself and your program after key sponsorship changes. Join Information Governance Consultants, Maura Dunn and Lee Karas, as they help guide you through steps you can take to ease the impact of a key sponsorship change. Each episode contains important information gained through our experience working with companies across various industries and we talk about how you can apply this experience to your company.

2024 Episode 82 – What do you do with the old data left behind in zombie systems after you start using your brand-new system? IG professionals know that old data cannot just go away and that the appropriate retention should be applied. Join Information Governance Consultants, Maura Dunn and Lee Karas, as they help you use zombie system costs to bulk up your new system business case and help apply retention. Each episode contains important information gained through our experience working with companies across various industries and we talk about how you can apply this experience to your company.

2024 Episode 81 – A few reasons why information governance professionals should partner with IT. Join Information Governance Consultants, Maura Dunn and Lee Karas, as they explain the reasons why IG professionals need to understand and partner with IT. Each episode contains important information gained through our experience working with companies across various industries and we talk about how you can apply this experience to your company.

2024 Episode 80 – A review of the different levels of system testing and help to make that final Go/No-Go decision to put your contract management solution into production a little easier. Join Information Governance Consultants, Maura Dunn and Lee Karas, as they review testing methods like making sure your configuration matches your design, making sure the functions work the way they are supposed to, checking that the integrations work, and involving users to test their specific areas. Each episode contains important information gained through our experience working with companies across various industries and we talk about how you can apply this experience to your company.

2024 Episode 79 – Don’t underestimate the time necessary for contract data and document cleanup. What items are frequently overlooked when looking at contract data? Join Information Governance Consultants, Maura Dunn and Lee Karas, as they share a few suggested approaches to help you not underestimate contract data and document cleanup. Each episode contains important information gained through our experience working with companies across various industries and we talk about how you can apply this experience to your company. Episode length 00:15:23

Do you think process mapping is just a bunch of consulting buzz words? Learn how important it is to capture current contract processes before you implement software. Join Information Governance Consultants, Maura Dunn and Lee Karas, as they discuss where to start in order to capture current contract processes. Each episode contains important information gained through our experience working with companies across various industries and we talk about how you can apply this experience to your company. Episode length 00:12:17

2024 Episode 77 – How to understand Contract Lifecycle Management functionality to apply it to your organization’s needs. What are some of the unique things about CLM functionality that you should know to aid in the setup of new processes for your organization. Join Information Governance Consultants, Maura Dunn and Lee Karas, as they discuss contract lifecycle management functionality. Each episode contains important information gained through our experience working with companies across various industries and we talk about how you can apply this experience to your company.

2024 Episode 76 - Implementing software at your organization? This episode is a great guide to all the elements necessary to make implementing software or any program a success. Join Information Governance Consultants, Maura Dunn and Lee Karas, as they discuss the TrailBlazer Information Design Framework. Each episode contains important information gained through our experience working with companies across various industries and we talk about how you can apply this experience to your company.

What is contract management? Why is it sometimes called contract lifecycle management? Why should you be concerned? Do contracts really rule the world? Join Information Governance Consultants, Maura Dunn and Lee Karas, as they introduce contract management and explain what contract lifecycle management means for your business. Each episode contains important information gained through our experience working with companies across various industries and we talk about how you can apply this experience to your company.

You figured out whether to do a pilot project or a proof of concept, now document your lessons learned. How many hypotheses are too many to test for with a pilot project? What do you do with the lessons learned that you collected? Join Information Governance Consultants, Maura Dunn and Lee Karas, as they give real life examples to help document and follow up on lessons learned. Each episode contains important information to help guide businesspeople with project implementation.

2024 Episode 73 – What’s the difference between a pilot project vs proof of concept? Can one be more technical in natural than the other? Is a pilot project all about people and process? Join Information Governance Consultants, Maura Dunn and Lee Karas, as they give real life examples to help explain the difference between a pilot project vs proof of concept.

Changes, what changes? What do you do after you tested your organization for implementation readiness? Be prepared, remain flexible, and make sure your change management person is ready.

After setting up your project success factors it’s time to assess the readiness of your people, processes, and technology.

Just assess the impact on people, process, and technology. That’s easier said than done. Join Information Governance Consultants, Maura Dunn and Lee Karas, as they give real life examples to help better understand people, process, and technology for more effective project implementation.

Do you struggle to understand why your information governance project is not gaining the traction you expected? Join Information Governance Consultants, Maura Dunn and Lee Karas, as they discuss best practices developed over the past 10 years for engaging key team members in your organization for keeping your project on track. Each episode contains important information to help information governance professionals make an even greater impact at their organizations.

This episode is great for individuals who want to explore the root cause of information governance issues at their organization and find out how information is flowing across the organization.

I'm sure at one point or another you were looking for a file, report, or email and said "I can't find what I want when I need it". If this is you, then listening to this episode may give you some practical insight into the root of your problem, and help get organized and increase efficiency.

Information governance is helping companies actively use their information to make better business decisions and contributing to overall cost savings. Information governance transitioned from an administrative cost to value and capital investment.

This summary will review the steps necessary for creating an asset data management program that links to your asset management strategy and your company’s overall business strategy.

Learn the importance of having a strong asset data structure and asset information model to create the links between how the finance, engineering, capital development or construction teams can plan for the financial impact of your assets.

Linking parts and inventory management to your asset information management activities.

Knowing how many contracts are depending on an asset in your company fully functioning at optimal capacity will help focus maintenance. Join Information Governance Consultants, Maura Dunn and Lee Karas, as they discuss a plan for having revenue generating assets.

Real-life examples of how detailed design documents may not help in finding your assets without asset definitions and naming conventions.

The challenge is to trace the important data that meets your asset definitions and get it into your systems so that your information is up to date.

Deciding on practical asset IDs does not have to be difficult and should not include building meaning into a long string of characters.

Deciding on practical definitions for your infrastructure assets. What key factors can you use to help define these assets?

Why is it important for your whole company to have the same understanding on what are its physical assets? You’ll be surprised by the answers you get when you ask different parts of your organization to define what constitutes an asset.

An introduction to asset data management for physical infrastructure assets.

Records Process Maps are an excellent way to help uncover and reduce the number of silos within an organization.

What information governance professionals can do to help their organization ensure the correct data gets delivered to the new organization.

A merger is a great opportunity for an information governance professional to help their organization get through all the data challenges.

How can an IG professional help prepare their organization to handle an M&A event and better position themselves in the process?

Would an ECM solution be the right fit for your organization to use to manage email?

Steps to email management.

The Importance of Email Management

2023 Episode 48 – Who knows what lurks behind the use of spreadsheets in your organization? Could spreadsheets be masking...

Best kept secret to implementing process improvement

Top 5 IG Challenges

Does your organization struggle with whether or not to capture chats, text messages, or to record conference calls?

Do you struggle to have your Records Retention Schedule gain utilization across your organization?

Each episode contains powerful information to help improve the visibility of your information governance program and increase its effectiveness across your organization.

2022 Episode 42 – Connecting information classification with your organization’s records retention schedule can help protect high risk records. Selecting...

2022 Episode 41 – Creating a practical records retention schedule for your organization to implement should not be a complicated...

2022 Episode 40 – Policy implementation is made easier when policies contain the “what needs to happen” and procedures contain...

2022 Episode 39 – Policy development has evolved over time. There are some do’s and don’ts in this episode that...

2022 Episode 38 – Tracking asset data is essential for making informed decisions. Does your company keep asset data in...

2022 Episode 37 – Do you have a document management problem or an asset data management problem? If your organization...

2022 Episode 36 – Your project champions are one of the most vital components to successful implementation of an information...

2022 Episode 35 – This episode points out three key steps to achieving organizational change and using your champion network...

2022 Episode 34 – Using training to implement change management seems logical. What type of training best fits your organization’s...