Martin Erasmuson
ICT commitment-creep and organisational ...

How prolonged and ineffective data strategy; poor data culture, and data-debt has led to organisational schizophrenia!, and what we can do about that.

ICT commitment-creep and organisational schizophrenia
Martin Erasmuson
Why a data strategy - now more than ever? 2023 ...
Why a data strategy - now more than ever? 2023 Govt. Data Summit
Digital Transformation, SDI
Martin Erasmuson
Time for a Military-Grade Information ...

A blog by Martin Erasmuson

As we find ourselves in the thick of the 4th Industrial Revolution with the exponential growth of and demand for information at its core, the current COVID 19 crisis has thrown a spot light on antiquated information infrastructures. We stumble from crisis to crisis with severe consequences that seem obvious in hindsight, before reverting to our old way of thinking. As we step into a deeply uncertain future, is it finally time to admit to that uncertainty and implement a Military Grade Information Infrasructure that can respond to continuous change?

Time for a Military-Grade Information Infrastructure?
Martin Erasmuson
Taming Office 365 – Flow

Microsoft Flow is both a ‘Good-Cop’ and ‘Bad-Cop’ with potential for great benefits and risks in equal measure.

A blog by Martin Erasmuson.

For the non-technical Senior Manager.

Taming Office 365 – Flow
Martin Erasmuson
Taming Office365 & SharePoint on-line

A blog by Martin Erasmuson

Unchecked, Microsoft Team becomes an ‘Information-Bogan’, causing havoc and spawning Information Debt.

For the non-technical Senior Manager.  A guide.

Taming Office365 & SharePoint on-line

Digital Transformation

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Time for a Military-Grade Information Infrastructure?

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Time for a Military-Grade Information Infrastructure?

A blog by Martin Erasmuson

As we find ourselves in the thick of the 4th Industrial Revolution with the exponential growth of and demand for information at its core, the current COVID 19 crisis has thrown a spot light on antiquated information infrastructures. We stumble from crisis to crisis with severe consequences that seem obvious in hindsight, before reverting to our old way of thinking. As we step into a deeply uncertain future, is it finally time to admit to that uncertainty and implement a Military Grade Information Infrasructure that can respond to continuous change?

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Your data audit ends up here

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Your data audit ends up here

“We’re going to do,” said the manager “an organisation-wide data audit.”

“If you like, yes,” said the Information Architect.

“Will that help?” asked the manager.

“No,” said the Information Architect, and gave him a friendly smile.”

― Martin Erasmuson, Information Architect (adapted from ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

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Is the Org-Structure Dead?

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Is the Org-Structure Dead?

A blog by Martin Erasmuson.

On one level, we understand we are operating in an increasingly dynamic business environment.  Indeed, we seem comfortable with continually adding-to, changing, removing, ‘tweaking’ three of those four organisational dimensions; information, process and technology elements to meet those constantly changing business needs; but get stuck on organisation structure.  That always seems to require the classic ‘restructure’ with all the heartache and disruption that comes with it.  Why is that?  Why can’t the way we organise our people to be as agile and adaptive as those other three elements? 

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Paying-off my information debt

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Paying-off my information debt

A blog by Martin Erasmuson

There is a natural tension between expediency and thought-out decision making.  In that sense information-debt is not necessarily bad.  I’ve blogged before about adaptive-strategies and a ‘Good Enough is Perfect’ approach.  On a personal level, I’ve used the company credit-card tactically for ease of accounting or while waiting for company invoices to be paid.  So, debt is not bad per se.  Sometimes a heuristic method is appropriate and necessary, acknowledging that a particular solution is not guaranteed to be optimal or perfect, but is sufficient to move a project forward, while acknowledging there is likely to be a ‘debt’ once the optimal solution is discovered and re-work is necessary.

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Coming Ready or Not: Social-Media, Crowd-Sourcing & Knowledge Management Strategy

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Coming Ready or Not: Social-Media, Crowd-Sourcing & Knowledge Management Strategy

A blog by Martin Erasmuson.

The ‘Gone-Viral’ nature of Social Media is now typical of the general business environment.  Rather than relying solely on corporate KM systems, organisations must create a culturefor discovery of the information they need, when they need it.  That needs to work in concert with deep agile capability to VERY quickly pivot resources to respond to (name today’s crisis here) along with a heuristic, ‘good-enough-is-perfect’ attitude.  

I know we know that – What is a Knowledge Management System Pt II

I know we know that – What is a Knowledge Management System Pt II

A blog by Martin Erasmuson.

Do many organisations suffer from Organisational-Dyspraxia?  Dyspraxia typically refers to a developmental coordination disorder that disrupts brain messages, with many sufferers having difficulty organizing their time or recalling information from their memory centres. 

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Not enough fingers for the dam

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Not enough fingers for the dam

Western Governments and organisations have spent decades evolving policies, statutes and by-laws into layers of bureaucracy for everything imaginable; and a few ‘unimaginable things as well.  For example; in the UK, “it is illegal to import potatoes into England and Wales if you have reasonable cause to suspect that they are Polish” (it’s the ascent that gives them away) or; in July 2013 a law was passed in China that states “it is illegal for adult children to ‘not’ visit their parents ‘often’” with a footnote that “they are also required to attend to their parent’s spiritual needs” (Wow – though technically they did invent zen).

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Did anyone notice when we went deaf, dumb and blind?

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Did anyone notice when we went deaf, dumb and blind?

I was struck recently by how many organisations have forgotten how to use the three best communications and information gathering devices on the planet; our eyes, ears and tongues. We’re relying instead on a plethora of gadgets in an attempt to glean what is going on within our organisations and the wider world.  This was underscored for me recently; and possibly ironically, by the linked story on a New Zealand news website of a NZ school that has erected a sign warning drivers to look out for texting teenagers.  The presumption being of course that they’re not paying any attention at all to what is going on around them.  The story made me smile; with perhaps just a hint of smug condescension.

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Digital Transformation - a faster horse won’t cut it

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Digital Transformation - a faster horse won’t cut it

I still meet the odd business-as-usual (BAU) ‘Digital Transformation Denier’.  Frankly I think the jury is out.  The digital transformation wave is hitting the beach now.  The question; in my view, is not ‘is it happening’ but rather ‘do I want to be on the wave or left behind’?  The key question then is ‘how to catch the wave’?  This blog is directed at that last question.