Well, time sure goes by quickly when you’re having fun. Lo and behold, this is the 1st birthday for my “8 things” movement! The idea when I started was pretty simple. I had an epiphany on an airplane on the way home from a long trip. I suddenly thought, “You know, there are people out there who know a heck of a lot more about document and records management than I do!” I realize I was probably the last person to realize this, but such is the nature of ego. Anyway, inspired by David Meerman Scott’s Worldwide Rave book, my first thought was what to call the series. I always have enjoyed things with numbers in them, so I started playing with concepts. I would like to say there was a high degree of precision in the selection of the number 8, but those who know me would know THAT WOULD BE A LIE. I wound up with the number 8 with the same precision that used to be in the Fletcher’s Castoria commerical re the appropriate number of prunes — “Is one enough? Is six too many?” [Note: I do understand that the Fletcher’s reference relegates me to a…

Bruno Wildhaber started his career in industrial electronics over twenty years ago and became a shareholder and manager in one of the first IT security enterprises in Switzerland. Since the successful sale of this business to Entrust he has participated as an expert in the establishment of the German Signature Law, and is a member of the expert group for “IT and the Law” of SWICO (the Association of the Swiss IT Industry). From 1995-1999 he was President of the Swiss Chapter of ISACA. He is a founder of the Competence Centre for Records Management. He has published several books on information security, IT-Governance and a practice guide for records management. Here’s a link for Bruno. [My keynote presentation at AIIM On Demand, if you didn't get a chance to see it.] 8 Ways Information Management (IM) and IT Governance (ITG) Will Support Each Other 1 — “IT doesn’t matter.” When Nicholas Carr published this statement in the Harvard Business Review in 2002, there was an outcry from the IT pundits. Obviously the fear of becoming irrelevant seemed exaggerated. Today we know Carr was right. He realized that we should talk about services and information, delivered based on our requirements…