Information management today – maximise your business potential in the digital age

In our modern digital age, however, records management can very difficult, and so it's essential to take a comprehensive approach. Since the digital revolution, both paper-based and digital information needs to be managed, and juggling the two can be difficult. By utilising strategic expertise to bring information together, however, businesses can reduce costs, improve customer experience and reduced business risks.  

Meeting the challenge

With unstructured content volume growing by 200% per year, the quantity of digital information available is simply overwhelming for many. And with 72% of companies admitting that they find it more difficult to find information that they own than information that they don't, it's clear that finding where to start is also a challenge. Whilst many will try to preserve each and every electronic file, it is becoming increasingly expensive - and unnecessarily time-consuming - to do so. With the need for a new approach, Chief Information Officers (CIO) are being created across board-room level with responsibility for reconciling digital and physical information assets. Initially conceived as a way of ensuring business continuity during the switchover, the CIO now also derives company benefit from ever-expanding amounts of information.

So what is the way forward?

As an increasingly fundamental part of any business, information management is too important a job to be delegated to an untrained member of staff. As such, experienced information directors and outsourced information reporting will soon be as commonplace in any business as finance directors are today in the financial services. Specialist information partners can provide your business with a package that addresses your specific needs, ensuring that information drives your company forward, rather than holding it back. And as information managers can spend 35% of their time browsing archive storage for information, anything that can alleviate costly wasted time and help them retrieve data faster, should be a worthwhile investment.

Make the most of your assets

Information is a hugely important business commodity to be enjoyed and exploited - not a liability to tolerate. Vital to the success of your business - both now and in the future - it's crucial to entrust it to the care and expertise of those whose experience in information speaks for itself.