How should information requirements be specified in a risk management framework (model)? The answer depends partly on the type of risk and the organization's attitude toward it. Most of the information required for operational risk is internal and the primary objectives are compliance and security. A much broader set of sources, tools, and skills is required for managing strategic risk, especially if risk is viewed as both a threat and an opportunity. Includes an example of a risk management framework and related references.
This month's entries include another case study of wiki use in a corporate setting, an example of user-created content married to traditional journalism, a report on collaboration technology trends, and survey results on user tagging.
For those having little experience with collaboration
tools in a corporate environment. Includes an overview of collaboration
technologies, the economics of using collaboration to promote innovation,
and the role IT can play in innovation.
Brian Gorman, leader of Intel's Advanced Collaboration
and Innovation research team, describes a pilot project to use blogs,
wikis, and other collaboration tools to foster innovation.
A hands-on opportunity for a cross-functional team to create a prototype metadata repository and demonstrate its use in search and other navigation tools. See also courses
Paul Rosenberg, an intranet search specialist at a casualty insurance company discusses a pilot project to extract terms from Wordnet and make them available as synonyms within Microsoft Office Sharepoint Services 2007.
For those having little experience with tagging in a corporate environment. Includes an overview of tagging strategies, how to store terms and categories,
and how to merge, map, and transfer terms.
Bradley Allen describes a pilot project with one of Siderean's customers that will integrate author-generated tags (a "folksonomy") with controlled vocabularies created by professional catalogers or indexers.
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