Mining Enterprise Intelligence or Bringing Order to Information Chaos

Your Name and Title: Deborah Hunt

Library, School, or Organization Name: Information Edge

Co-Presenter Name(s): n/a

Area of the World from Which You Will Present: California, USA

Language in Which You Will Present: English

Target Audience(s): Librarians and info pros looking for careers outside the traditional library realm

Short Session Description (one line): Mining Enterprise Intelligence or Bringing Order to Information Chaos

Full Session Description: Most organizations are desperate to find, reuse and repurpose their knowledge assets (paper, digital, and intellectual capital) in an information-overload reality. This can be an opportunity for us – with current and future employers and clients – through enterprise content management (ECM), document management (DM), digital asset management (DAM) and knowledge management (KM).

Studies have demonstrated that in paper-based systems, workers waste approximately 20% to 40% of their time searching for documents. Lost or misplaced paper files are a common problem with potentially disastrous results. The following statistics on document management are alarming:

90% of all corporate memory exists on paper.
Of all documents that get handled daily in an average office, 90% are just shuffled.
The average document gets copied 19 times.
Companies spend $20 in labor to file a document, $120 in labor to find a misfiled document, and $220 in labor to reproduce a lost document.
7.5% of all documents get lost, 3% of the remainder get misfiled.
Professionals spend 5-15% of their time reading information, but up to 50% looking for it.
There are over 4 trillion paper documents in the U.S. alone growing at a rate of 22% per year. (Source: Coopers & Lybrand)

Trends related to LIS employment show that in 2007, 15% of employers were not libraries and in 2008, that number jumped to 27%.

I see my colleagues struggling with layoffs and job insecurity. Yet there are vast opportunities for information professionals and I want to see us benefit from those opportunities.

Join this session to learn how to leverage the skills you already possess and how to expand your skillset to add to your professional toolbox.

Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session: http://www.information-edge.com

Tags: DM, ECM, KM, careers, nontraditional

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Permalink Reply by Steve Hargadon on October 4, 2011 at 11:09am

Deb:

All general conference sessions have to be noncommercial. I'm afraid this may not qualify. We do have options for commercial sponsors to co-present or present as part of sessions that are advertised as sponsored, but you'd need to be a sponsor to do that. Let me know if you'd like me to send some information.

Steve

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Permalink Reply by Deb Hunt on October 5, 2011 at 8:23pm

Hi, Steve.

You wrote:
"Deb: All general conference sessions have to be noncommercial. I'm afraid this may not qualify. We do have options for commercial sponsors to co-present or present as part of sessions that are advertised as sponsored, but you'd need to be a sponsor…"

I'm not sure why you think I'm trying to sell a product or business. Could you please explain?

This session is to share with my librarian/info pro colleagues how they can leverage existing skills or experience to find related jobs as the job market shrinks for more traditional library jobs. More and more of us are going in different directions using our MLS and related skills to find jobs, and they are out there, but not where we might usually look. Even ALA accredited programs are branching out into KM, RM, and more.

Happy to discuss by phone if that is better.

Thank you,
Deb

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Permalink Reply by Steve Hargadon on October 6, 2011 at 11:22am

Deb:

I wrote "may" because it was hard for me to tell. Since the link you put in the proposal is a service that seems to relate directly to the topic, I just needed to make sure you were aware of the non-commercial policy--some folks just didn't see that.

As long as your session is not an advertisement for what you do commercially, just let me know and we're good to go.

Steve

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Permalink Reply by Deb Hunt on October 6, 2011 at 12:01pm

Dear Steve,

I'm not trying to sell what I do except in the sense that my colleagues can do it too. Actually, I'm increasing the competition, but I do feel that in order for our profession to remain sustainable, we need to think outside the box and how we can leverage our skills and experience to work in areas where there is increased need and funding.

Thank you,

Deb