IIM is proud to be part of Information Awareness Month (IAM). IAM is a collaboration between various bodies within the records, archives, library and information management associations.

ACT

IAM 2008 Launch

EDRMS and WCMS Communities of Practice

Lunchtime Seminar

Training

IIM Breakfast Seminar

Discussion Group 

Business Intelligence/ Corporate Performance Management 

IAM 2008 Finale – Gala Dinner

Vic

Information Awareness Month in  Melbourne is well underway with the opening held at the National Archives centre in North Melbourne last Thursday.

The program of events scheduled for  Melbourne is:

The May 27 event IIM is co-ordinating has as its speaker Mr Matthew Brennan, Director of Performance Audit at the Victorian Auditor-General's Office. 

Matthew will be discussing the rationale for the Records Management Audit of Victorian Government Agencies, the methodology for the audit and some of the key recommendations. The Auditor-General’s report was tabled earlier this year.

As a matter of background the objective of the audit was to determine whether:

• public sector agencies are managing records in accordance with the Public Records Act 1973

• the Public Record Office  Victoria is operating efficiently and effectively in facilitating sound records management in the public sector.

Records management was selected for audit due to:

• the significant risks to the community and public sector agencies from poor records management

• potential for enhanced accountability and transparency of operations through better recordkeeping

• instances within agencies of poor records management identified by this Office and other organisations.

The audit assessed whether a selection of public sector agencies had established an appropriate framework to manage their records. A records management framework containing seven principles of sound practice was developed by VAGO drawing from authoritative literature, PROV and expert practitioners. The principles are consistent with the Australian Standards for Records Management (AS ISO 15489), and standards issued by PROV.

The meeting is free to members of the Information Awareness Month coordinating bodies. For bookings go to IIM Melbourne May 2008 Event. 

WA

IIM provides a collaborative event for WA and National members

As IIM Continues to pursue opportunities to work with other associations in delivering benefits to its members with a broad spectrum of Information management topics, WA Branch brings the first Multi Association Symposium. WA Branch is pleased that we are receiving registrations from across Australia. The event attracted 240 delegates from both the government and private sectors. 

The event theme “Global Convergence, Answers to Information Management and Compliance”, is aimed at all those responsible for maintaining information and knowledge and each association agrees will bring a wide array of perspectives as well as some very useful tips and tricks for us all. 

Bringing together the Hon Francis M Logan BA (Hons) MLA to support Global speakers to share their experience on a range of ‘hot topics’ including:

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Key Note – Global Concerns address ...                                                            Dave Snowden 

Dave is Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Cognitive Edge globally; and regularly consults at the board level with some of the world's largest companies as well as to Government and NGOs. 

Dave will address, the future of information management being far from clear.  The regulatory requirements of compliance and the pervasiveness of social computing provide compelling and conflicting pressures that cannot be easily reconciled; a true Catch 22 for the IT function.

“Userland”                                                                                                      Yathin Naidoo

Yathin is currently the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) competency leader within the Deloitte Enterprise Information Management (EIM) group and has over 15 years of information management experience.

Yathin will take a user experience approach Deloitte have started to analyse some of the implementations they’ve seen and present these.

Aspects of Business Intelligence                                                                  Rob McKinnon

   Robert (IBRS) provides senior management executives with business IT advice, IT strategy development insight, and assisting with project delivery and project recovery. With over 30 years IT and business experience

Robert will examine the wide array of BI technology currently available and some of the hallmarks that denote successful BI implementations.

Is Compliance Really Worth our Time and Effort?                                         Kemal Hasandedic

Kemal has 19 years experience in records management in local government and he will discuss the components of what I believe is required for a Best practice ECM solution that reflects the core compliance requirements required by legislation.

The key in my mind is a: Framework for Records and Information Compliance

The Final Information Gap                                                                             Robert Eames  

Robert has over twenty years experience in management and consulting at senior levels. He has worked in  Australia and overseas in operational, financial and marketing management and will look at:

Data Elements – The basic building block

Organising the Data – Leadership goes a long way

Process and skills – Getting Information out of Data

Knowledge – An undervalued asset

Twelve tips to win the hearts and minds battle

Many members of IIM will have heard of Dave Snowden from the  UK , we are pleased to announce as Keynote Speaker for the event, who is without doubt best placed to truly bring together all of the event topics with a global perspective of the issues faced the world over.

IIM believes in bringing together the users of information management systems with the providers of the enabling technologies as well as ICT professionals with Information Managers, CIO’s and alike – ‘we all face the same issues’. At the same time offering development opportunities and enabling us to gather information on industry trends and experience to put into practice ourselves.