Blog & Articles
Blockchains – or when will the next nerd be driven through the village?
Hardly a day goes by without a journalist feeling called upon to preach the promising future of the bankless society. In search of new jobs & Zuckerbergs, the news- and money-hungry gang of investors and journalists has now stumbled upon the topic of blockchain...
The Standardization Zoo or “Who Needs ISO Standards?”
I do not make a pit of murder out of my heart. I consider 90% of the existing standards to be redundant, unnecessary and confusing, or as a colleague of mine once said: "As long as there are different sockets in Euopa, I don't believe in standardization, certainly not...
Visibility and utility of IG programs for spec. Business functions and end users
James Lappin writes in his paper,"The strengths and weaknesses of the information governance approach to records management" "If one of the main strengths of the information governance model is the reduction in burden on the end-user, the main weakness of the model is...
Email management – incidents with expensive consequences
A new study proves: Companies that fail to manage and control their email face costly consequences. Two real-world examples: Scottrade was fined $2.6 million in 2015 for failing to raise important mail for an audit. Barclays suffered a court case in 2013 ($3.75...
NZZ article on the DSGVO with contribution KRM
In the editorial of 25.5. the NZZ has taken up the topic of DSGVO/data protection. We were allowed to contribute our practical experience in extensive interviews. Giorgio V. Müller has turned this into a very informative and well-researched article. You can find the...
Digitization and Board of Directors
With the increase in digitization and the strategic importance of these projects, the Board of Directors has an increasingly important role to play. While IT topics used to be on the fringe agenda of a board meeting at most, digitization initiatives are now...
Communication & training as essential elements of information management
Rules are only as good as the people who should apply them. This truism is nowhere more virulent than in information management/information governance or in the organizational handling of business information. No organization can be expected to achieve management and...
Safe Harbor 2.0
Our colleague Michael Erner and data protection expert has commented on the Privacy Shield in a Mission 100 blog: "Data privacy advocates call it "bullshit bingo," "a joke," "a boondoggle" and "window dressing," Edward Snowden says he's "never seen a political...
Digitization: How to procure an ECM/DMS solution?
Digitization demands a shift from analog to digital primacy. What do we mean by this? The aim is to optimize data management and eliminate analog carriers as far as possible, or to convert analog data into digital data. At the same time, the aim is to enable data...
EXPERT FOCUS technical article on electronic invoicing by Dr. Bruno Wildhaber
Bruno Wildhaber published a paper on the subject in December 2017 in EXPERT FOCUS (Der Schweizer Treuhänder), the magazine of EXPERT suisse, the industry association of auditors and fiduciaries: "LEGAL PROCESSING AND ARCHIVING ELECTRONIC INVOICES - Starting...
Why GeBüV compliance is a MUST for ECM/DMS/ERP providers in Switzerland
As a foreign product provider (ever even for CH manufacturers), it is not always clear why GeBüV(Business Records Ordinance) compliance is a MUST in Switzerland when it comes to storing records. It would go too far to go into the history of the development, the...
Data protection: Article in the NZZ of Jan. 25. to the KRM event of 16.1.2018
Giorgio V. Müller, contributor at NZZ was present at the data protection event of the KRM on 16.1.2018 and has written an interesting article that reflects the contents very well.
The WG Fridge Blog (Season 1 Episode 1): The WG and its residents
This is the first edition of the "WG Fridge Blog". What is it about? To help you understand what the WG Fridge is all about, I ask you to watch the introductory video. Our storyline on information governance builds on the image of the communal refrigerator. We argue...
Study: Enterprise Content Management / Document Management Services – The Swiss Market to 2020
ECM/DMS solution providers as well as potential customers face a variety of challenges. The procurement of such systems cannot be compared with the procurement of any other software, as these are not simple but complex projects (key words: digitization of workflows,...
GDPR Practice: Opt-in or not? What do you do with old address files?
The GDPR places higher requirements on the registration process when collecting personal data (mail addresses) for advertising. In principle, according to Art. 6, personal data may only be processed if (among other things): consent has been given there is a legitimate...
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