Glentworth Information Management

Seizing the Information Opportunity in 2012

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:28:47 +0000

In today’s organisations, information is a valued business asset and when exploited effectively it can act as a key differentiator in driving their success.

It’s quite simple really - information matters in your business!

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 04:35:28 +0000

Information drives your business and works as your greatest asset. It provides key inputs for quality decision making. It helps drive efficacy within your business (makes money), reduces wastage and redundancies (saves money).

Shareholder growth from Unstructured Data

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:12:39 +0000

Data drives organisation processes – moving through structured and unstructured formats, providing key information for effective process management and enabling valuable business insights to management for improved decision making and business innovation.

Leveraging Big Data for Business Growth – How and Why?

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:05:03 +0000

The effective harnessing of available information holds the key to newer ideas, innovative solutions and possibly the next strategic breakthrough. To build this competitive edge, therefore, businesses will need to focus beyond the obvious channels of information and look into the wider environment within which the information is being generated.

Big growth and Big data!

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 06:59:39 +0000

It is apparent that information enabled by the appropriate technology will act as key influencers of how you shape your businesses and organisations in the years ahead. Information touches every aspect of your business processes today and with it generates trillions of bits of data.

Mapping your information, a critical success factor!

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 21:35:04 +0000

Information constitutes the central network of your organisation. It holds the sum of all organisational experiences, be it the data elements used in managing your business operations, business insights gathered over the years, a record of how product and service innovations evolved, customer and competitor data and routine employee data.

Information - the raw power driving businesses today!

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:06:02 +0000

Businesses have so far relied on simply using their data effectively to generate information for decision making and growth. This trend, however, is rapidly changing as businesses wake up to the increasing possibilities for growth in a data driven economy.

Timely information bridges the education gap

Tue, 24 May 2011 06:02:44 +0000

As part of broader initiatives to support its overarching strategy, Griffith University engaged Glentworth to undertake a study that identifies and quantifies benefits in productivity, efficiency and sustainability through enhanced collaboration approaches, behaviours and tools.

The Enterprise View of Your Information

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 02:35:25 +0000

What is the value of your organisation? Do you place a value only on fixed tangible assets? It has been estimated that the intangible assets of many companies can be approximately two-thirds of the total. What value do you place on the intangible elements you hold such as documents, emails, websites, more importantly what is the knowledge value?

Premier extends personal thanks to Glentworth

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 04:47:15 +0000

It’s not often that one receives a personalized letter of gratitude from the Premier of Queensland.

Needless to say the staff at Glentworth were both proud and humbled when they opened the signed letter from Premier Anna Bligh in which she wrote, “Please accept my personal thanks for your kind words of support conveyed to me during Queensland's flood crisis.”

It is our pleasure, Premier.

Rapid Growth Propels Organisational Oil Change

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:34:11 +0000

Glentworth conducted a series of workshops inviting representatives throughout the organization to participate. During these workshops, Glentworth helped these individuals define their areas of responsibility as part of a knowledge transfer process. Glentworth then developed an operationalisation plan using an Information Management model.

Empowering Educational Outcomes for Queensland

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:19:16 +0000

The goal was to enable the organisation’s employees to better ‘self-help’ rather than requiring Information & Technologies to troubleshoot or to locate particular information or documents on their behalf. To better streamline this process, Glentworth was called upon to identify the current state of information and knowledge management throughout the organization, with the view of finding clear solutions.

Floods a reminder of disaster management importance

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:07:04 +0000

As a former member of the Defence Force, Neil Glentworth has seen more than his fair share of natural and human-created disasters.

In fact, it was probably his experience combined with his expertise in information and knowledge management that allowed him and his team at Glentworth to be such an invaluable resource during and post the Queensland floods.

Library Science is an art

Wed, 19 May 2010 00:41:00 +0000

Here at Glentworth we take a lot of pride in understanding how information collections develop, evolve and emerge. This blog entry is about how we can draw lessons about how to curate our information from everyday life.

Over the years I have collected quite a library. Several thousand books, not all of which I have read. When I moved interstate a couple years ago, I placed my library away. In a rush, I packed up my collection according to efficiency of storage - Fit the most books into the least number of boxes.

The Point of Sharing

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:40:00 +0000

Knowledge Management is built on a foundation of IT enabled collaboration systems which capture organisational information. Glentworth demonstrates that the benefits of these systems can only be realised by applying a curatorial approach to information.

The Game Changer

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:37:22 +0000

Too often EIM programs are undertaken as a reaction, to improve compliance or reduce risk exposure. As a result EIM initiatives run the risk of being too complex, IT rather than business driven and generally lacking in suitable measures and defined benefits.