IIM Workshop Day - How to effectively Design, Develop, Deploy and Sustain an Information Management Capability - 20th February 2019, Renewables Innovation Hub, 19/23 Moore Street, Turner, Canberra

The exponential pace of technological advancement is, if anything, accelerating. Businesses are not only struggling with the challenges of keeping information management projects current, competitive, scalable and efficient. Business are also struggling with the challenge of keeping up to date with analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and other disruptive technologies.
  
With this in mind and following on the successes of previous IIM workshops, the Institute for Information Management is organising another opportunity for our members and supporters to meet and spend half of the day in learning, creative thinking and networking.

The focus for the IIM Workshop Day will be around the innovative approaches to design, develop and deploy and sustain the modern information management capabilities, solutions, projects and initiatives.  We will touch on various hot topics in the information management sphere, but our time and energy will be aimed at improving the ways we go about implementing them.

For more information on this not to be missed IIM Workshop Day being held on Wednesday 20th February 2019 visit our website at https://www.iim.org.au/events/iim-workshop-day or register for the event by downloading the IIM Workshop Registration Form

The Technology- Driven Future of Project Management. Capitalizing on the Potential Changes and Opportunities

Technology is enabling innovation more quickly than even the most optimistic organization thought possible just a few years ago. Shifts in the workforce, employee models and customer expectations are all driving organizations to take advantage of this opportunity for change.  In the context of project management, there is ever-increasing pressure to deliver more quickly and efficiently, leading to the adoption of new technologies.

This will likely drive significant change to the structure and nature of project management, project teams and even projects themselves. In this whitepaper, we'll examine these potential changes and the opportunities they may create. 

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AI will transform project management.  Are you ready? Transformation Assurance By PWC, 2018

In this article, PWC explain how AI is set to change project management practice, what obstacles need to be overcome, and how project managers can prepare themselves to stay relevant in a fully integrated, automated and predictive project management world.

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IIM Business Analytics Community of Practice Presentation 
From Data to Action: Interactive Dashboards Driving Your Decisions
Presenter: Vladimir Videnovic, IIM National President

Interactive Dashboards provide a visual display of the most important information that information consumer needs to maintain his/her situational awareness, inform the decision-making process and assist in accomplishing one or more objectives.  They make data open and accessible to business users and provide means to measure the performance and success in achieving predetermined goals and targets.

This session of the IIM Business Analytics Community of Practice introduced the key functions expected from interactive dashboards, discussed why is the topic of dashboards and business intelligence still one of the CIO's key priorities for the last two decades and provided an overview of good practices and success factors related to the delivery of this important component of an organisation's enterprise information management capability.

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AIIM Industry Research Report - The state of intelligent information management - in partnership with M-Files - 2018

In this industry research AIIM believes that "Intelligent Information Management" is a better "verb" to describe what organizations are trying to "do" with content and information than ECM. Intelligent Information Management is not a technology segment.

In February, 2018 AIIM set out to quantify what organizations thought of ... the explosion of data and advances in artificial intelligence and machine.

To find out more download the eBook findings and report.

EDI Learning Resource Hub sponsored by OpenText

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is the computer-to-computer exchange of business documents in a standard electronic format between business partners.

More than 85% of all electronic business transactions take place using Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). Whether you are looking to optimise B2B collaboration, streamline B2B integration, reducing errors, increasing processing speeds or just wanting to explain EDI benefits to your colleagues, this EDI Resource Hub sponsored by OpenText is for you.

EDI Learning Resource Hub

Embrace Artificial Intelligence - Data Makes Possible with Jason Silva 19 Sep 2018 - Uploaded by Western Digital Corporation

Artificial intelligence is at the core of promising technologies such as autonomous vehicles and precision medicine.  Many people, however, remain fearful of its misuse. 

Watch futurist Jason Silva explain why we should embrace the future being made possible by artificial intelligence.

Embrace Artificial Intelligence - Data Makes Possible

Big Data: Statistical Inference and Machine Learning by Queensland University of Technology (QUT) - Join Free

Learn how to apply selected statistical and machine learning techniques and tools to analyse big data.  This course is part of the Big Data Analytics program, which will enable you to gain the big data analytics skills that are in demand today. 

Business Fundamentals: Project Management by The Open University - Join Free

Gain the basic skills to manage all phases of project lifecycles effectively, using the most appropriate methods and tools. Whatever the type or scale of your project, delivering great results, on time and budget, is always a challenge.

This online course introduces you to the essential skills and processes that support successful project management and helps you apply them to your own context.

Link: Business Fundamentals: Project Management

Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management by Darden School of Business, University of Virginia - Join Free

Learn the basics of project planning and management so you can run effective projects at work or in daily life. Projects are all around us.

Virtually every organisation runs projects, either formally or informally. In this course you will learn planning principles and execution methods so your projects can be run more effectively and efficiently at work and in daily life. You'll discover the language and frameworks for scoping projects, sequencing activities, utilizing resources, and minimizing risks.

Link: Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management

Cloud Computing Services - Cloudurable Introduction to Kafka – Published 2017
What is Kafka? Kafka is a platform for building a fault tolerant, distributed publish-subscribe messaging system engineered for processing of high-volume data streams, which is able to handle hundreds of thousands of messages.  This 79 page eBook provides a comprehensive overview of topics such as:

• What is Kafka
• Kafka Usage and Use Cases
• Who uses Kafka
• Kafka Fundmentals etc.
  

Cloudurable Introduction to Kafka

Dark Data Analytics - By Complexity Labs - Published February 2018

This video highlights that the dark data explosion of data is far outstripping our capacities to use it. A small fraction is in a traditional structure form that is easily accessible and usable by organizations, a larger section of big data is unstructured but at least somewhat accessible, while the vast majority is simply hidden all together going unseen and unused, this, we can call dark data.

Data may be considered dark for a number of different reasons because it is unstructured, because it is behind a firewall on the internet, it may be dark because of speed or volume, or because people simply have not made the connections between the different datasets.

In many organizations, large collections of both structured and unstructured data sit idle. On the structured side, it's typically because connections haven't been easy to make between disparate data sets that may have meaning- especially information that lives outside of a given system, business unit or function. 

Dark Data Analytics

Is your data catalogued and governed?  The truth about data lakes and data warehouses - Andre De Locht IBM Analytics Published August 2018

Uncover why the data catalog is the real differentiator that makes or breaks a data lake environment.

Learn more about the power of the data catalog with this video published by IBM Analytics.

Is your data catalogued and governed?

A Guide to Robotic Process Automation – By The Robotic Workforce.

Robotic Process Automation may sound like futurist science fiction, but for many organisations, it's an essential part of their everyday operation and is already delivering significant benefits. So exactly what is RPA and what does it mean for your organisation? A Guide to Robotic Process Automation by The Robotic Workforce.

Link to A Guide to Robotic Process Automation

Funding Grants for Women’s Leadership Development - Women & Leadership Australia (WLA)

Women & Leadership Australia (WLA) has a vested interest in improving the diversity and strength of the IT sector, and our Charter recognises the important and positive role that women can contribute as a result of increased participation.  Women & Leadership Australia (WLA) is administering a national initiative to support the development of female leaders across Australia’s IT sector.

The initiative is providing women working in the sector with grants to enable participation in a range of leadership development programs.

The leadership development programs are part-time and delivered nationally via WLA’s blended learning model. Scholarship funding is strictly limited and will be awarded based on a set of selection criteria being met.

Expressions of Interest: Find out more and register your interest by completing the
Expression of Interest form here prior to September 7, 2018:
www.wla.edu.au/funding

Risk and control considerations within robotic process automation implementations – Published by EYGM Limited 2008

Maintaining a "finger on the pulse" of RPA risk and control across an organization represents a worthwhile investment to proactively manage the changing business processes and, ultimately, protect against potentially newsworthy repercussions.

Measure and monitor your RPA risk and control profile before becoming a statistic.

Risk and control considerations within robotic process automation implementations

Cisco Live 2018: Emotional AI and the Future of Work

Dr. Rana reveals eight major ways that emotional AI will transform the future of work from productivity companions and human robot teams, to a complete re-imagination of our travel experiences and how we connect with one another.

Cisco Live 2018: Emotional AI and the Future of Work

The National Archives of Australia and now updated their Digital information and records management capability matrix and recently announced the release of their beta Information management and data capabilities tool.
 
The Information management and data capabilities tool can be used by employees and their organisation to determine what skills and knowledge are needed to create and manage information and data effectively to meet business and accountability requirements.  The aim of the beta version is to help facilitate feedback on use ability, accessibility and content.   
 
The Archives continues to engage with professional bodies and Government agencies to finalise content around professional development activities, with specific focus on the 'next steps' component of the tool.
 
Release of NAA Beta Information management and data capabilities tool

White Paper - API-led Commerce Drives Next-Gen Digital Experiences by BloomReach and commercetools - Published 2017.
 
This interesting white paper discussed 'How APIs Enable the Seamless Integration of Content and Commerce'.  APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) make the world go around. 
 
Regardless if you issue an order in a webshop, make a reservation at your favorite restaurant or pay an invoice online, the chances are that you are encountering several APIs. In most of today’s digital interactions, APIs are serving in the background. In other words, they have emerged as the foundational currency for the web.

API-led Commerce Drives Next-Gen Digital Experiences

The Chatbot Imperative: Intelligence, Personalization and Utilitarian Design – Published by Cognizant 2017
 
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process services, dedicated to helping the world’s leading companies build stronger busi­nesses.  This whitepaper provides an interesting insight into the world of Chatbots.
 
Chatbots don’t need to impersonate humans; to boost business outcomes and deliver superior experiences, they must quickly deliver responses that speak directly to individual human needs and continuously learn so they can apply meaningful responses to these unique requirements over time.

The Chatbot Imperative: Intelligence, Personalization and Utilitarian Design

Artificial intelligence and privacy - Report, January 2018 – Published by Datatilsynet, The Norwegian Data Protection Authority
 
Most applications of artificial intelligence (AI) require huge volumes of data in order to learn and make intelligent decisions. Artificial intelligence is high on the agenda in most sectors due to its potential for radically improved services, commercial breakthroughs and financial gains.  In the future we will face a range of legal and ethical dilemmas in the search for a balance between considerable social advances in the name of AI and fundamental privacy rights.
 
This report aims to describe and help us understand how our privacy is affected by the development and application of artificial intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence And Privacy

Explore our NEW IIM Website for a range of resources in respect to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Links to PDF resources include:

• Office of the Australian Information Commissioner - Australian businesses and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (PDF version)
• Deloitte Risk Advisory - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - Deloitte NWE Privacy Services–Vision and Approach (PDF version)
• Deloitte - Protecting your EU customers EU General Data Protection Regulation (PDF version) 
• PwC - Technology’s role in data protection – the missing link in GDPR transformation (PDF version)
  

Link to IIM Knowledge Resources

Agile Project Delivery Confidence - Mitigate project risks and deliver value to your business – Published by PwC July 2017

When Agile becomes an organisation’s standard project delivery methodology, it changes the way projects are managed and controlled. This paper explores how to create value for your organisation by building the right capabilities, unleashing your potential and gaining confidence to deliver the best product to market, while minimising delivery risks.

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[Webinar Replay] From ECM to Intelligent Information Management - AIIM International - Published on Feb 22, 2018

What organizations are doing with content has outgrown the traditional definitions. We need a new “technology roadmap” for the information management capabilities that are critical to Digital Transformation and to meeting the challenge of radically redefining experiences with customers, employees, and partners. Follow along as we explore Intelligent Information Management. 

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Webinar: How Artificial Intelligence is Changing the Way the World Manages Information - M-Files Intelligent Information Management - Published on Mar 15, 2018

Watch this 30-minute webinar to learn how to unlock the value of information to drive innovation, how to combat multiple repositories and information silos, empower innovation while maximizing existing IT investments and mitigate migration.

View Webinar

PDF version of Machine Learning IBM Limited Edition by Judit Hurwitz and Daniel Kirsch – (for dummies a Wiley Brand)

Machine Learning For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition, gives you
insights into what machine learning is all about and how it can
impact the way you can weaponize data to gain unimaginable
insights.  Your data is only as good as what you do with it and how
you manage it.

In this book, you discover types of machine learning
techniques, models, and algorithms that can help achieve
results for your company. This information helps both business
and technical leaders learn how to apply machine learning to
anticipate and predict the future.

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Machine Learning vs Deep Learning vs Artificial Intelligence | ML vs DL vs AI | Simplilearn – Published 20 February 2018

This excellent Machine Learning vs Deep Learning vs Artificial Intelligence video will help you understand the differences between ML, DL and AI, and how they are related to each other.

The tutorial video will also cover what Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence entail, how they work with the help of examples, and whether they really are all that different.

Link to Video

Beginning Programming  with Python® by John Paul Mueller
(for dummies a Wiley Brand)

Beginning Programming with Python For Dummies is all about getting up and running with Python quickly. You want to learn the language fast so that you can become productive in using it to perform your real job, which could be anything.

Python emphasizes code readability and a concise syntax that lets you write applications using fewer lines of code than other programming languages require. In addition, because of the way Python works, you find it used in all sorts of fields that are filled with nonprogrammers. 

This book starts you right at the beginning by showing you what makes Python different from other languages and how it can help you perform useful work in a job other than programming.

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MMC Cyber Handbook 2018, Perspectives on the next wave of cyber – Published by Marsh & McLennan Companies – Global Risk Centre

Cyber risk continues to grow as technology innovation increases and societal dependence on information technology expands. A new and important turning point has been reached in the struggle to manage this complex risk. In the war between cyber attackers and cyber defenders, we have reached what Winston Churchill might call "the end of the beginning".  This 75-page document is broken up into three sections these are:

• Wake up to the shifting cyber threat landscape
• Prepare for emerging regulations 
• Cyber resiliency best practices
  

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Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity – National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - Published March 2017

This PowerPoint slide pack by NIST outlines the Cybersecurity Framework:

• Includes a set of standards, methodologies, procedures, and processes that align policy, business, and technological approaches to address cyber risk
• Provides a prioritized, flexible, repeatable, performance-based, and cost-effective approach, including information security measures and controls, to help owners and operators of critical infrastructure identify, assess, and manage cyber risk.
• Identifies areas for improvement to be addressed through future collaboration with particular sectors and standards-developing organizations. 
• Is consistent with voluntary international standards

A selection of videos on Security and Collaboration from The Information Innovation @ UTS - Security & Collaboration

Peter Chapman -  Intro to Information Security:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRxqQ0UoZn8


Stephen Byrne - Balancing Security & Collaboration:    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3darpHyR9I


Leanne Fry - Security & Collaboration @ AUSTRAC: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baiS7yFAu-E