Join your ARMA Chicago colleagues from the privacy of your home or from the convenience of your office!  This is a one-hour live video conference with an expert presenter and a chance to ask questions & connect with your fellow ARMA members.

Topic: Information Governance and Cloud Migration with Steve Weissman

What We'll Learn: 

Migrating information from one solution to another can be complicated, time-consuming, and expensive – so much so that most organizations simply don’t want to do it. “We’ll do something if something happens,” they say. “But until then, everything is working fine.”

The problem is that something is always happening, many times just below the surface. So when a problem does arise, it usually presents as a sudden and outright emergency, and can result in a rushed, incomplete, and costly response.

•    A repository is approaching (or has reached) end-of-life and should be replaced before it breaks.
•    Changing business dynamics are outpacing your system’s ability to keep up.
•    Your company has mandated that you move to the cloud.
•    Your original vendor was acquired by another, making it harder to receive timely support.

If any of these circumstances are on your horizon – or worse, already on your desk – then the time is now to craft a migration plan. The good news is that many of the questions to consider are already central to good records and information governance. The less-than-good news is that your IT department probably isn’t thinking about your information much at all.

This session will explore and discuss such key questions as:

•    What information can be culled so you don’t have to pay to “lift and shift” it all?
•    Can your privacy and security requirements be fully met in the new environment?
•    What other systems touch the one needing to be replaced as the information flows throughout your business processes?

Don’t wait for the inevitable crisis to appear – start developing your action plan today!

About the Speaker:

Steve Weissman, The Info Gov Guy™

Steve Weissman is a governance consultant who helps you turn Information Into Outcomes™ by making it more findable, leverageable, private, secure, and generally of better quality. Known as The Info Gov Guy™, he is Principal Consultant at Holly Group and has spent 25+ years helping organizations achieve better business through better information – and by nurturing the human behavioral changes needed to succeed.

A multi-credentialed consultant, analyst, instructor, and public speaker, Weissman focuses on information and records strategy, maturity modeling and needs assessment, process improvement, RFP development, and organizational change. A long-time contributor to associations including AIIM and ARMA, he is honored to be an AIIM Fellow, a recipient of AIIM’s prestigious Award of Merit, and an inaugural inductee of the Information Governance Hall of Honor.

Highly regarded for his populist style, Weissman is uniquely accessible for a thought leader of his experience and stature. A dynamic writer and in-demand public speaker, he regularly posts blogs, videos, and audio podcasts, presents often to C-level executives and internal program teams, and consistently ‘wows’ participants in public and private conferences, workshops, and webinars. He is best reached at [email protected] / LinkedIn @steveweissman / 617-383-4655.